Pulitzer prize for research on Trump-shops

Donald Trump, a self-made man? Article in the "New York Times" had this Version of the US President. The authors received a Pulitzer. Another award posthumously went to Aretha Franklin.

For their research, about US, President Donald Trump, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal with two of the prestigious Pulitzer prizes awarded. The "New York Times"-Reporter David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner was honored in the category of "Explanatory reporting" for its 18-month Research and subsequent series of articles to the business Empire of the Trumps.

you probably would have, among other things, trump's assertion that he had acquired his wealth from his own power, paid tribute to the Pulitzer prize Committee. They, too, had shown that the company is Empire, "with tax avoidance, tricks to be riddled".

The journalists had revealed in your articles from last October, among other things, that Trump had received over the years from his father payments in the amount of $ 413 million. The money is to be flowed, therefore, in part, through a sham company to avoid taxes. Trump should have helped his 1999 and 2000 deceased parents, therefore, even once, of your real estate property retail-calculate and save taxes.

the President called the revelations in October as a "very old" and "boring". You did not trigger a review by the New York tax authority, the results of which are as far as already available - however, known.

The New York Times Reporter Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner and David Barstow cheer in the editorial of the "New York Times spaces."

price for Stormy-Daniels-reporting

The Pulitzer prize in the category of "National reporting" went to the editors of the "Wall Street Journal" for several articles on the reasons behind and the execution of the hush money payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, and the former Playboy Model Karen McDougal. Both women have years of sexual relations to Trump.

With a Pulitzer prize, the regional newspaper "The South Florida Sun-Sentinel" for its reporting on Education has been honored and government failure in the run-up to the firearms attack on a school in the city of Parkland, with 17 dead in February 2018. The "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette," was honored for its coverage of the synagogue attack, with eleven dead last October.

another Pulitzer-prize went to the US news Agency Associated Press (AP) for their reporting on the civil war in Yemen. Was honored also by the news Agency Reuters for its reporting on against the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar atrocities.

Aretha Franklin posthumously honored

The most attention is the Pulitzern the excellent media and journalists. Sought-after prizes in the other categories. Soul singer Aretha Franklin has been awarded more than half a year after her death, with a Pulitzer prize, after you "got done over more than five decades of indelible contributions to American music and culture," it said. The canadian musician Ellen Reid also won a prize for their Opera "Prism", which deals with the consequences of sexual and emotional abuse.

In the categories of literature, biography and poetry of Richard Powers for the novel won "The roots of life", Jeffrey Stewart for "The New Negro" about the New York-based philosopher Alain Locke and Forrest Gander for his elegies-collection "Be With".

The Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the award was this year for the 103. Times awarded. The Pulitzer-Council is composed of journalists, publishers and academics.

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