Washington Post wins public service Pulitzer for Capitol attack coverage
by Martin Pengelly, Benjamin Lee and agencies in New from World news | The Guardian on (#5Z1R2)
Paper beat out two other finalists, the New York Times and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Washington Post has won the 2022 Pulitzer prize for public service journalism, for The Attack, its account of the deadly assault on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump on 6 January 2021.
The paper beat two other finalists: the New York Times, for challenging official accounts of US military engagements in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, for an expose of electrical fires in city rental operations.
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