The series helped secure the freedom for more than 2,000 slaves.
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The Washington Post has won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
The paper has won awards for that series from the Nieman Foundation and was listed as a finalist in the Ring and Goldsmith competitions, and won a George Polk Award and an American Society of Newspaper Editor’s award for the series.
The Post found that in 2015, on-duty police officers shot and killed 990 people nationwide.
Miranda, who plays Hamilton, was inspired by a 2004 biography of the founding father by Ron Chernow and he stuck to the essential truth of United States history – except in this version the founding fathers have rap showdowns to flesh out their political differences.
It is the strongest showing by Florida newspapers in the Pulitzer Prize competition, celebrating its 100th anniversary, since 2009.
There are 14 journalism categories, primarily recognizing the work of print newspapers, but also recognizing magazines and digital news organizations.
In the arts, prizes are awarded in seven categories, including fiction, drama and music.
“The Sympathizer“, debut novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen’s look at a Vietnamese spy, took the fiction prize, while “Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS“, Joby Warrick’s look at the Islamic terrorist group, nabbed the non-fiction statue.
Hamilton, the Broadway musical that has been a critical and commercial smash hit, has won the Pulitzer prize for drama.
For many journalists, it’s one of the most anticipated days on the calendar. He was part of the Los Angeles Times’ coverage of the Christopher Dorner manhunt.
Alissa J Rubin of The New York Times won in the worldwide reporting category for her stories on the inhumane treatment of Afghan women.
The awards went to Associated Press reporters for reporting on slave fishermen, online outlet The Marshall Project’s investigation of a botched rape case, and the musical “Hamilton“, among others. Since the report, Florida legislators are rededicating around $20 million dollars back to mental health hospitals.
Music director Alex Lacamoire and Actor, composer Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrate on stage during “Hamilton” GRAMMY performance for The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Richard Rodgers Theater on February 15, 2016 in New York City.
When South Pacific won in 1950, its exploration of racial prejudice (and the famous song “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught”) was probably more compelling to the Pulitzer board than Mary Martin taking a shower onstage to wash that man right out of her hair.
The prize committee called Schulz’s story about the Cascadia fault line “a masterwork of environmental reporting and writing”.
Criticism: Emily Nussbaum of the New Yorker, for television reviews.
Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter of The New York Times and the Photography Staff of Thomson Reuters won awards on Breaking News Photography capturing Middle Eastern refugees.
Commentary: Farah Stockman of the Boston Globe, for columns on the legacy of busing in Boston and its lingering effect on education.
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In editorial writing, John Hackworth of Sun Newspapers of Charlotte Harbor, Florida, was honored for his pieces about a deadly assault on an inmate by guards.
