AFP – The New York Times won two Pulitzer Prizes Monday, less than in previous years, and the Los Angeles Times had two, as the winners of the famous awards given on Monday at Columbia University in New York.

The Pulitzer Prize was not awarded this year in the "Breaking News" (hot news).

The online news sites are absent except for ProPublica, including two reporters, Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, are rewarded in the category "national story".

The New York Times, traditionally among the biggest winners, won three Pulitzer in 2010 and five in 2009.He has received two in 2011, which will, one reporters Clifford Levy and Ellen Barry in the category "International Reporting", and another to David Leonhardt in the "comment".

The Washington Post, who managed last year to beat the New York daily with four awards, not only did in 2011, attributed to the photographers Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky CARIOT in category "photo Topics. "

The provincial newspapers are not forgotten. The Los Angeles Times won the prestigious award in the category "public service", coveted, and for the "photo magazine.The Sarasota Herald-Tribune won in the category "Investigative Journalism", and several reporters from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel are rewarded in the "extension".

Amy Ellis Nutt of Star-Ledger of Newark (New Jersey, north-east) has distinguished itself in the "magazine".

Mike Keefe of the Denver Post wins in the "cartoons".