2005 Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes for 2005 were announced on April 4, 2005:
Journalism
- Beat reporting: Amy Dockser Marcus of The Wall Street Journal for her "stories about patients, families and physicians world of cancer survivors".
- Breaking news photography: Associated Press staff Murad Sezer, Khalid Mohammed
- Breaking news reporting: Staff of The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, for "coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover".
- Commentary: Connie Schultz of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland
- Criticism: Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal
- Explanatory reporting: Gareth Cook of The Boston Globe for explaining "the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research".
- Editorial cartooning: Nick Anderson of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.
- Editorial writing: Tom Philp of The Sacramento Bee
- Feature photography: Deanne Fitzmaurice of the San Francisco Chronicle
- Feature writing: Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune for her "account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Illinois".
- International reporting:
- *Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times for her "coverage of Russia's struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work".
- *Dele Olojede of Newsday, Long Island, New York, for his look at Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan genocide.
- Investigative reporting: Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon, "for his investigation exposing a former governor's long concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl".
- National reporting: Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times for his "stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings".
- Public service: Los Angeles Times, for "exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital".
Letters and drama
- Biography or Autobiography
- *de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
- Drama
- *Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley
- Fiction
- *Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- General Nonfiction
- *Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
- History
- *Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
- Music
- *Second Concerto for Orchestra by Steven Stucky
- Poetry
- *Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser