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Wall Street Journal wins two Pulitzer awards

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NEW YORK: Thirteen news organisations shared the honours in the journalism categories at the annual Pulitzer Prizes, which covered a wide variety of subjects in a year when no single event dominated the front pages.

The Wall Street Journal was the only multiple winner, taking home the international reporting and public service awards for its coverage of China and a stock-options scandal that roiled corporate America.

The Associated Press won the Pulitzer in breaking news photography for Jerusalem-based staff photographer Oded Balilty's dramatic picture of a Jewish settler trying to resist Israeli security officers.

The Pulitzers, announced on Monday by Columbia University, honoured achievements in American journalism.

The editorial writing prize went to the New York Daily News for ``compassionate and compelling'' commentary on health issues involving ground zero workers. The Pulitzers were created in 1911 under terms of the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. — AP

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