2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

Among the winners this year was Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's The Patriot News, "for courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky," and The Tuscaloosa News, "for its enterprising coverage of a deadly tornado, using social media as well as traditional reporting to provide real-time updates, help locate missing people and produce in-depth print accounts even after power disruption forced the paper to publish at another plant 50 miles away."

Surprisingly, for the first time since 1977, no award was given in the Fiction category. Three books were nominated, but the jury could not agree on which book should receive the honor. Author Stephen Greenblatt earned the General Nonfiction prize for his book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, "a provocative book arguing that an obscure work of philosophy, discovered nearly 600 years ago, changed the course of history by anticipating the science and sensibilities of today."

Check out the rest of the winners at the official Pulitzer website!