Pulitzer Prize Awards


NEW YORK - When the Pulitzer board handed out the most important prizes in journalism, The New York Times and The Washington Post topped the list of winners- and finalists - as usual.

RICHMOND, Va. - With only seven reporters on the Bristol Herald Courier's staff, two bottles of cheap champagne were plenty to toast the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting on Monday.

Reaction from Pulitzer Prize winners: "A hell of an honor." - Daniel Gilbert, winner of the public service Pulitzer for the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier.

NEW YORK - The Bristol Herald Courier, a small paper in the coalfields of Appalachia, beat out journalism's powerhouses to win the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for uncovering a scandal in which Virginia landowners were deprived of millions in natural gas royalties.

The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners: JOURNALISM: Public Service: Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier.
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