Awards go to newspapers from New York to S.C.
The N.Y. Times won three, while the paper in Charleston got one.
NEW YORK - The Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for an examination of the deadly toll of domestic violence, while the New York Times collected three awards and the Los Angeles Times two.
The Seattle Times staff took the breaking news award for its coverage of a mud slide that killed 43 people and its exploration of whether the disaster could have been prevented.
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both won investigative reporting prizes, the Times for an examination of lobbyists' influence on state attorneys general, the Journal for detailing fraud and waste in the Medicare payment system.
The Times' coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa won Pulitzers for international reporting and feature photography, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was honored in the breaking news photography category for its images of the racial unrest touched off by the deadly police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
The Washington Post took the national reporting prize for exposing security lapses that spurred an overhaul of the Secret Service.
The Pulitzer judges also recognized less widely known stories, such as the Post and Courier's exploration of 300 women's deaths in the last decade. The paper shed light on a legal system in which first-time offenders face at most 30 days in jail for a domestic-violence beating but can get five years in prison for cruelty to a dog.
The prizes spanned news outlets large and small: The 70,000-circulation Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze won the local reporting award for exposing corruption in a school district.
And Bloomberg News was a first-time winner, taking the explanatory reporting award for an examination of corporate tax dodging.
The Los Angeles Times' prizes were for feature writing that put a human face on California's drought and for Mary McNamara's television criticism.
The commentary prize went to the Houston Chronicle's Lisa Falkenberg, who examined the case of a man wrongfully convicted of killing a police officer, among other problems in the legal and immigration systems.
Kathleen Kingsbury of the Boston Globe was recognized for editorial writing; she looked at restaurant workers' low wages and examined the toll of income inequality.
Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News won the editorial cartooning prize for his look at such issues as immigration, gun control, and problems in the VA hospital system.
Pulitzer Prizes In Journalism
Public service: The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
Breaking news reporting: Seattle Times staff.
Investigative reporting: Wall Street Journal staff and Eric Lipton of the New York Times.
Explanatory reporting: Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News.
Local reporting: Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch, and Frank Suraci, of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif.
National reporting: Carol D. Leonnig of the Washington Post.
International reporting: New York Times staff.
Feature writing: Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times.
Commentary: Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle.
Criticism: Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times.
Editorial writing: Kathleen Kingsbury of the Boston Globe.
Editorial cartooning: Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News.
Breaking news photography: St. Louis Post-Dispatch photography staff.
Feature photography: Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer for the New York Times. - APEndText
Pulitzer Prizes In the Arts
Fiction: "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr (Scribner).
Drama: "Between Riverside and Crazy" by Stephen Adly Guirgis.
History: "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People" by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang).
Biography or Autobiography: "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe" by David I. Kertzer (Random House).
Poetry: "Digest" by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books).
General Nonfiction: "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt).
Music: "Anthracite Fields," by Julia Wolfe, premiered on April 26, 2014, in Philadelphia by the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Mendelssohn Club Chorus. - APEndText