(Washington Examiner) The board that decides Pulitzer Prize winners is defending its decision to award the New York Times and Washington Post for their reporting on the Russia investigation in 2018.
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The Pulitzer Prize Board said in a statement Monday that it commissioned two independent reviews after receiving inquiries from former President Donald Trump and others.
“Both reviews were conducted by individuals with no connection to the institutions whose work was under examination, nor any connection to each other. The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes,” the statement says.
Trump demanded that the board rescind the award from the New York Times and Washington Post and threatened legal action in a letter in May.
