Guild Journalists Win Six 2012 Pulitzers

Pulitzer winner David Kocieniewski proudly wears a Guild sticker at a New York Times' celebration.

TNG-CWA members from coast to coast have won six of the most coveted awards in journalism, a Pulitzer Prize, for reporting on everything from violence in Philadelphia's schools to famine in East Africa.

Guild winners for 2012 also included a Boston film critic, a Denver photographer who chronicled the struggle of an Iraq veteran suffering post-traumatic stress, and a New York Times journalist who won for explanatory reporting for what judges called a "lucid series that penetrated a legal thicket to explain how the nation's wealthiest citizens and corporations often exploited loopholes and avoided taxes."

A pair of winners from the Seattle Times, Michael Berens and Ken Armstrong, have donated their $10,000 prize so that other Seattle journalists can get investigative reporting training. Berens and Armstrong's investigation revealed how a little known governmental body in Washington State was moving vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to the cheaper but more dangerous methadone.

A full list of winners and links to their work is on the Pulitzer website.