The Washington Post and The Guardian won the Pulitzer Prize in public service for revealing the US government's sweeping surveillance efforts in stories based on secret documents handed over by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. (File photo)
New York:
The Washington Post and The Guardian won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for revealing the US government's sweeping surveillance efforts in stories based on thousands of secret documents handed over by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
The Pulitzer for breaking news was awarded to The Boston Globe for its coverage of the deadly Boston Marathon bombing. The awards are American journalism's highest honor.
The winning entries about the NSA's spy programs showed the government has collected information about millions of Americans' phone calls and emails based on its classified interpretations of laws passed after the September 11 attacks.
The disclosures touched off a furious debate in the US over privacy versus security and led President Barack Obama to impose limits on the surveillance.
The Pulitzer for breaking news was awarded to The Boston Globe for its coverage of the deadly Boston Marathon bombing. The awards are American journalism's highest honor.
The winning entries about the NSA's spy programs showed the government has collected information about millions of Americans' phone calls and emails based on its classified interpretations of laws passed after the September 11 attacks.
The disclosures touched off a furious debate in the US over privacy versus security and led President Barack Obama to impose limits on the surveillance.
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