Articles on Snowden and Rohingya win Pulitzer's top journalism prizes


The Guardian US and Washington Post were awarded the most prestigious Pulitzer prize in the field of journalism on Monday for coverage of secret surveillance by the US National Security Agency that sparked wide debate over government spying. 

Meanwhile, Reuters won in international reporting for its coverage of the violent persecution of the Rohingya community, a Muslim minority group in Myanmar who in their efforts to flee often fall into the hands of brutal human-trafficking networks. 

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