Times wins Pulitzer for series on ocean pollution

james.rainey@latimes.com

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2007 Pulitzer Prize winners

JOURNALISM

Public Service: The Wall Street Journal, for coverage of a 2006 stock-options scandal that rattled corporate America.

Breaking News Reporting: The (Portland) Oregonian for print and online coverage of a family missing in the Oregon mountains.

Investigative Reporting: Brett Blackledge, the Birmingham News, for his exposure of cronyism and corruption in Alabama's two-year college system. (Moved by the board from the Public Service category.)

Explanatory Reporting: Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis, the Los Angeles Times, for print and online reports on the world's distressed oceans.

Local Reporting: Debbie Cenziper, the Miami Herald, for reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency.

National Reporting: Charlie Savage, the Boston Globe, for revelations that President Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws.

International Reporting: The Wall Street Journal staff, for reports on the adverse effect of China's booming capitalism on conditions including inequality and pollution.

Feature Writing: Andrea Elliott, the New York Times, for her portrait of an immigrant imam.

Commentary: Cynthia Tucker, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for columns "that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community."

Criticism: Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly, for his "zestful, wide-ranging" restaurant reviews.

Editorial Writing: New York Daily News editorial board, for editorials on behalf of ailing ground zero workers.

Editorial Cartooning: Walt Handelsman, Newsday, for his "stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation."

Breaking News Photography: Oded Balilty, the Associated Press, for his photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces in the West Bank.

Feature Photography: Renee C. Byer, the Sacramento Bee, for her portrait of a single mother and her dying child.

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ARTS

Fiction: "The Road," by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf).

Drama: "Rabbit Hole," by David Lindsay-Abaire.

History: "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation," by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf).

Biography: "The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher," by Debby Applegate (Doubleday).

Poetry: "Native Guard," by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin).

General Nonfiction: "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf).

Music: "Sound Grammar," by Ornette Coleman.

Source: Associated Press