1995 Pulitzer Prize

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The Pulitzer Prizes for 1995 were announced on April 18, 1995.

Pulitzer Prize U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.

Journalism awards

Public Service:
- Virgin Islands Daily News , St. Thomas, for its disclosure of the links between the region's rampant crime rate and corruption in the local criminal justice system. The reporting largely the work of Melvin Claxton, initiated political reforms.
Spot News Reporting:
- Staff of the Los Angeles Times , for its reporting on January 17, 1994, of the chaos and devastation in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake.
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Investigative Reporting:
- Brian Donovan and Stephanie Saul, Newsday , Long Island, New York, for their stories that revealed disability-pension abuses by local police.
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Explanatory Journalism:
- Leon Dash, staff writer, and Lucian Perkins, photographer of The Washington Post , for their profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with destructive cycles of poverty, illiteracy, crime and drug abuse.
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Beat Reporting:
- David Shribman, The Boston Globe , for his analytical reporting on Washington developments and the national scene.
National Reporting:
- Tony Horwitz of The Wall Street Journal , for stories about working conditions in low-wage America.
International Reporting:
- Mark Fritz, Associated Press, for his reporting on the ethnic violence and slaughter in Rwanda.
Feature Writing:
- Ron Suskind, The Wall Street Journal , for his stories about inner-city honors students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper.
Commentary:
- Jim Dwyer, Newsday , Long Island, New York, for his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City.
Criticism:
- Margo Jefferson, The New York Times , for her book reviews and other cultural criticism.
Editorial Writing:
- Jeffrey Good, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times , for his editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates.
Editorial Cartooning:
- Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Constitution
Spot News Photography:
- Carol Guzy of The Washington Post , for her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath.
Feature Photography:
- Staff of Associated Press, for its portfolio of photographs chronicling the horror and devastation in Rwanda.

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes

The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalistic resources, which may include editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics, video and other online material, and may be presented in print or online or both.

Melvin L. Claxton is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. He has written about crime, corruption, and the abuse of political power. He is best known for his 1995 series of investigative reports on corruption in the criminal justice system in the U.S. Virgin Islands and its links to the region's crime rate. His series earned the Virgin Islands Daily News the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1995. Another series by Claxton, this time on the criminal justice system in Detroit, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003. Claxton has won a number of national reporting awards and his work has been honored several times by the Associated Press managing editors. He is the founder and CEO of Epic 4D, an educational video game company.

Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news

The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news, local reporting on news of the moment. It has been awarded since 1953 under several names:

Arts awards

Drama:
- The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote (Dutton)
Music:
- Stringmusic by Morton Gould (G. Schirmer)

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