The “International” Pulitzer Prizes

Explanatory Reporting: David Finkel of the Washington Post for “his ambitious, clear-eyed case study of the United States government’s attempt to bring democracy to Yemen.”

Beat Reporting: Dana Priest of the Washington Post for “her persistent, painstaking reports on secret ‘black site’ prisons and other controversial features of the government’s counterterrorism campaign.”

National Reporting: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times “for their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty.”

International Reporting: Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley of the New York Times “for their ambitious stories on ragged justice in China as the booming nation’s legal system evolves.”

Feature Writing: Jim Sheeler of the Rocky Mountain News “for his poignant story on a Marine major who helps the families of comrades killed in Iraq cope with their loss and honor their sacrifice.”

Commentary: Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times for “his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world.”

Feature Photography: Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News “for his haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets.”

Biography: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin.

General Non-Fiction: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins.