Photojournalist Daniel Berehulak, facing camera, embraces Michelle McNally, the assistant editor and director of photography of The New York Times, during announcement of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in The Times newsroom in New York, U.S., April 10, 2017. Berehulak won for photographs that provided a haunting portrait of a violent anti-drug campaign in the Philippines. Sam Hodgson/Courtesy The New York Times/Handout via REUTERS
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pulitzer Prizes on Monday honoured The Washington Post for hard-hitting reporting on Donald Trump's presidential campaign and The New York Times for revealing Vladimir Putin's covert power grab, praising their probing of powerful people despite a hostile climate for the news media.
The Daily News of New York and ProPublica, a web-based platform specializing in investigative journalism, won the prize for public service journalism for coverage of New York police abuses that forced mostly poor minorities from their homes.
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