2015’s Pulitzer jury awarded more prizes to individual women in journalism categories than it has since 2010. Five women won individual awards this year, and one woman won as part of a team, according to the Pulitzer site.
Here are 2015’s individual female winners, not including women who won as part of a team or staff:
National Reporting: Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post
Feature writing: Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times
Commentary: Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle
Criticism: Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times
Editorial writing: Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe
While 2014 saw only one female winner in a journalism category (Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer), 2013 had no individual winners. There was one individual winner in 2012 and there were three in 2011. The last time there were five female winners was in 2010, and that year the jury also awarded prizes to three women as parts of teams.
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