The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for illuminating public safety gaps in Alaska, revealing that a third of villages had no police protection.
The "riveting" series spurred legislative changes and an influx of spending, the judges noted in an announcement postponed several weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The New York Times won the investigative reporting prize for an exposé of predatory lending in the New York City taxi industry and also took the international reporting award for what the judges called "enthralling stories, reported at great risk," about Russian President Vladimir Putin's government.
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