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The board of American journalism's highest honor, the Pulitzer Prizes, has put out a statement upholding its awarding of the 2018 prize in National Reporting to reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign's involvement.

The prize administrators had commissioned a review of the awards following inquiries" from Donald Trump and others, but found no wrongdoing. Here's their full statement:

The Pulitzer Prize Board has an established, formal process by which complaints against winning entries are carefully reviewed. In the last three years, the Pulitzer Board has received inquiries, including from former President Donald Trump, about submissions from The New York Times and The Washington Post on Russian interference in the U.S. election and its connections to the Trump campaign--submissions that jointly won the 2018 National Reporting prize.

These inquiries prompted the Pulitzer Board to commission two independent reviews of the work submitted by those organizations to our National Reporting competition. Both reviews were conducted by individuals with no connection to the institutions whose work was under examination, nor any connection to each other. The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.