DEEPTI HAJELA
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK – The Herald Courier of Bristol, Va., has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting on the mismanagement of natural gas royalties owed to landowners in Virginia.
J. Todd Foster, editor of the Herald Courier is a former Chattanooga Freee Press reporter.
The Washington Post won four Pulitzers on Monday, for international reporting, feature writing, commentary and criticism.
ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative-journalism service, won one of two Pulitzers awarded for investigative reporting for a story on the life-and-death decisions made by doctors at a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina. The story was a collaboration with The New York Times Magazine.