L.A. Times Wins Pulitzer for Coverage of San Bernardino Terrorist Attacks

It's the paper's third such prize in the last 18 years.

The list of Pulitzer winners for Breaking News Coverage is now officially book-ended by the Los Angeles Times. The paper won in 1998 for its reporting of a bank robbery and subsequent police shootout in North Hollywood. This afternoon, the Times was crowned in the category for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks.

The Breaking News Reporting Pulitzer dates back to 1953 but has been previously awarded under four different, successive prize names: Local Reporting, Edition Time; Local General or Spot News Reporting; General News Reporting; Spot News Reporting.

With today’s win, the L.A.

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