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The Los Angeles Times won the Pulitzer Prize for public service yesterday for a series that exposed deadly medical problems and racial injustice at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. The hospital, according to the series, "had a long history of harming, or even killing, those it was meant to serve." The public service award was one of two Pulitzers won by The Los Angeles Times; The Wall Street Journal also won two, including the award for beat reporting, for a series by Amy Dockser Marcus about cancer survivors.
Other 2005 Pulitzer Prize winners in Journalism and Letters, Drama and Music announced on Monday at New York's Columbia University:
-International Reporting - Two Prizes: Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times for coverage of Russia's struggle with terrorism, improving its economy and making democracy work and to Dele Olojede of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. for reporting on Rwanda a decade after the genocide.
--Investigative Reporting - Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week, Portland, Ore. for exposing a former governor's long-concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl.
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