LA Times, Wall Street Journal win Pulitzer Prizes

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NEW YORK (AFP) — The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal each picked up two Pulitzer Prizes, with no one publication dominating the prestigious annual US awards for print journalism.

The LA Times took the coveted public service award for a "courageous and exhaustively researched" series of articles exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital.

The newspaper also won an international reporting award for Kim Murphy's coverage of Russia's struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work.

Wall Street Journal reporters garnered Pulitzers for beat reporting and criticism.

The Pulitzers were announced at New York's Columbia University, where the awards will be handed out later this...