The Washington Post Wins Pulitzer Prize for Its "Walter Reed and Beyond" Series

On Tuesday it was announced that the Washington Post won a total of six Pulitzer Prizes this year, including one for its outstanding series on Walter Reed, by the reporting team of Dana Priest, Anne Hull, and photographer Michel du Cille.  The Post series won the Pulitzer's public service medal "for documenting in vivid detail the substandard treatment for wounded soliders and poor living conditions marked by cockroaches and mold."  The series, wrote the Post, "sparked a political uproar, prompting Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to fire Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey, and a presidential commission later recommended numerous changes."  The link to the story about the Post winning the six Pulitzers is here.  The link to the Post's complete series of stories and photography called "Walter Reed and Beyond" is here.  Well-deserved congratulations to journalists Priest and Hull, and photographer du Cille, on a groundbreaking and vitally necessary series.