2016 Pulitzer Prizes: A.P. Wins Public Service Award; ‘Hamilton’ Is Honored
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for a series that exposed slavery and vicious abuse in the Southeast Asia fishing trade, leading to the release of 2,000 captives and broad reforms in the United States and overseas.

The series, “Seafood From Slaves,” involved a sprawling reportorial effort across several countries that discovered scores of fishermen in captivity — and sometimes locked in cages — in an industry that supplies seafood to American restaurants, pet-food brands and big retailers like Walmart. The A.P.’s reporting prompted arrests, ship seizures and action by the federal government.

One year after magazines became eligible in some Pulitzer categories, The New Yorker received two prizes: for Emily Nussbaum’s television criticism, and for “The Really Big One,” Kathryn Schulz’s ominous article about the potential for a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, which won for feature writing. William Finnegan, a New Yorker staff writer, won the biography award for his memoir, “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.”

In an honor that was widely predicted, the musical “Hamilton,” a hip-hop retelling of the founding fathers story, received the prize for drama. The musical’s creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, reacted joyfully on Twitter, writing: “PULITZER?!”

Alissa J. Rubin, the Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, won the prize for international reporting, for a deep examination of the abuse and injustice faced by women in Afghanistan. “I always am curious what people who are usually invisible are thinking, and how they see the world,” Ms. Rubin said in the Times newsroom on Monday.

The Times also won the award for breaking news photography, its third photography prize in three years. Four Times photographers — Tyler Hicks, Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev and Daniel Etter — won for a searing collection of images of migrants seeking asylum in Europe, sharing the prize with the news agency Reuters. It was Mr. Hicks’s second Pulitzer; he won in 2014 in the same category, for his photos of the terrorist attack at the Westgate mall in Kenya.

The Times had 10 finalists over all, the newspaper’s most since 2002, when it was recognized for coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The Pulitzers are now in their centennial year, and the winners announced by Columbia University on Monday reflected some of the changes sweeping the media landscape. Among the winners was The Marshall Project, an online outlet founded 17 months ago. The Washington Post took the national reporting prize for a project that used data, graphics and other tools of digital journalism to chronicle every killing by a police officer in 2015, unearthing fresh insights into a subject that has dominated the national political debate.

Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project and T. Christian Miller of the online investigative news site ProPublica won the explanatory reporting prize for their harrowing account of a botched rape investigation. The article, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” revealed how the police dismissed a claim of rape by an 18-year-old woman, and even prosecuted her for an ostensibly false report — a decision that delayed for years the capture of her actual attacker, a serial rapist. The piece is now being cited in training programs for law enforcement.

Two other newspapers besides The Times won two prizes apiece. Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe, who recently joined the Times staff, won the commentary prize for columns examining the legacy of busing and segregation in Boston; Jessica Rinaldi of The Globe won in the feature photography category for her photos of a young boy struggling after a history of abuse.

The Tampa Bay Times won for local reporting for its look at the stunning failure rates among black students in a Florida county school system that abandoned racial integration. The newspaper also shared the investigative reporting prize with The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, for a joint exposé on abuse and neglect in Florida mental hospitals.

The Los Angeles Times won in the breaking news category for its coverage of the shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., in December. Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee received the award for editorial cartooning, and John Hackworth of Sun Newspapers of Charlotte Harbor, Fla., won for editorial writing.

The award for fiction went to Viet Thanh Nguyen for his debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” which opens in 1975 in Saigon and centers on a Communist sympathizer who escapes to Los Angeles and spies on a South Vietnamese group he has infiltrated. The novel was hailed by critics for blending espionage, satire and historical fiction.

“Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS,” by Joby Warrick, a reporter for The Washington Post, won the nonfiction prize. The book explores the rise of the Islamic State, in part through a detailed portrait of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the group’s founder, who was killed in an American airstrike in 2006.

T. J. Stiles, a biographer who won a Pulitzer in 2010 for his portrayal of Cornelius Vanderbilt, won this year’s prize in history, for “Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America.” Mr. Stiles’s book is a biography of George Armstrong Custer, the Civil War general who died in the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876.

普立茲獎揭曉 「血汗海鮮」美聯社奪大獎

美國最權威的新聞獎「普立茲獎」一百周年得獎名單18日揭曉，美聯社以東南亞海鮮奴工的報導獲得最大獎「公共服務獎」，路透與《紐約時報》以中東／歐洲難危機為主題，共同獲得突發新聞攝影獎。

美聯社得獎的「來自奴工的海鮮」是十篇調查報導，揭露東南亞以奴工產生供應美國超市和餐館的海鮮，報導導至2000名奴工獲自由及泰國等相關國家整頓業者，落實改革。

美聯社執行主編凱瑟琳．卡洛爾讚揚該社記者「為無告的人發聲，運用我們這個行業的利器告知世界。」

美聯社在報導中指出：「美國海關的紀錄顯示，（奴工剝殼的）這些蝦進入沃爾瑪、紅龍蝦（Red Lobster）等美國各大餐飲業與零售業店。」

這項報導以故事、照片與視頻構成的系列費時18個月，追蹤奴工捕蝦、奴工在工廠裡將蝦加工，乃至成品出現在美國民眾餐桌上的不堪過程。一位逃出印尼島嶼的30歲奴工說：「美國人和歐洲人吃這東西的時候，應該想想我們。海裡人骨堆積如山。」

公共服務獎有普立茲獎「最大獎」之譽，向來在得獎名單中掛頭，有別於其他獎項，只頒給報紙，獎品是金牌，其他獎項各一萬美元。

突發：難民危機再現 專題：受虐童的故事

突發攝影新聞獎

路透攝影報導中東難民九死一生投奔歐洲，以一系列畫面呈現難民擠在稀薄的船隻上抵達歐洲的情景。鏡頭拍出難民家庭衝上岸的慘狀，有的在水裡揮手求救，有的上岸就倒在海灘上。

路透駐希臘與塞普路斯首席攝影記者貝拉基斯說：「我們讓世界看見這裡發生的事，世界表現了關切，可見人性仍在。我們為這些不幸的人傳出心聲，世界聽到了。現在獲得普立茲獎，我們覺得我們的工作獲得專業肯定。」路透與同樣深入報導難民危機的紐時共享突發新聞攝影。

成立僅17個月、自許無黨派的非營利網路新聞組織The Marshall Project與專注數位調查採訪的Propublia協作，以關於一名連環強暴犯為主題的報導，獲得「解釋報導獎」，是獲獎的唯一一組數位媒體。

專題攝影報導獎 《波士頓環球報》

得獎篇章是以六歲男童受虐為主題的「沃爾夫的一生」。其中一張照片可以看出他兩歲時被母親男友毆打住院、靠餵食管活命的遺痕。里納迪說，這不只是一家、一人的故事，而是一個「美麗、複雜、痛苦的故事，傳達人類的精神渴望」。

原文參照：
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/business/media/pulitzer-prize-winners.html

紐約時報中文版翻譯：
http://cn.nytstyle.com/culture/20160419/t19pulitzers/zh-hant/

Slideshow：Photography Pulitzer for Coverage of Refugee Crisis
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/04/18/blogs/photography-pulitzer-for-coverage-of-refugee-crisis/s/18-lens-refugees-slide-8AS8.html

延伸閱讀：2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/19/business/media/pulitzer-prize-winners-complete-list.html

2016-04-19．聯合晚報．A5．焦點．編譯彭淮棟