The former Communist states in Europe have seen a sharp rise in adult children living at home, but nothing like in Slovakia, where three out of four 18- to 34-year-olds live with their parents.
The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C., with a staff of about 80 and a daily circulation of 85,000, won the most prestigious of the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism awarded on Monday, for a series on the high number of deaths resulting from domestic abuse in the state.
The Los Angeles Times won two Pulitzers. Diana Marcum won the feature writing prize for her stories from the Central Valley of California on how the state’s drought affected the lives of residents. The newspaper also won the criticism prize, for Mary McNamara’s writings on television and culture.
Bloomberg News won its first Pulitzer, for explanatory journalism. It went to Zachary R. Mider, for his reporting on how American corporations dodge taxes and get away with it. Speaking in the newsroom on Monday, Matthew Winkler, the emeritus editor in chief, said that when he told the company’s founder, Michael R. Bloomberg, that Bloomberg News had won its first Pulitzer, Mr. Bloomberg replied, partly in jest, “It’s about time.”
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Anthony Doerr’s best-selling historical novel, “All the Light We Cannot See,” which unfolds in Europe during World War II, and follows a blind French girl who joins the resistance movement and an orphaned German boy who is swept up in the Nazi occupation. Mr. Doerr’s novel was a finalist for the National Book Award.
In general nonfiction, the prize went to “The Sixth Extinction,” by Elizabeth Kolbert, which explores how climate change is accelerating the mass extinction of species. The drama prize went to “Between Riverside and Crazy” by Stephen Adly Guirgis.
The winning series on domestic abuse by The Post and Courier, its executive editor, Mitch Pugh, said in an interview, began when reporters saw annual statistics that ranked South Carolina the No. 1 state in the country in the rate of women killed by men.
That prompted an eight-month investigation, driven by a body of data that sought to establish what the deaths might have in common. “This series,” he said, “has made women’s lives in South Carolina better and safer.” The State Legislature has fast-tracked legislation that seeks to remedy the problems the newspaper identified, he said.
The prize for breaking news photography went to the staff of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch for “powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson” after the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, last summer. The shooting prompted protests that roiled the area for weeks.
There were roughly 1,200 journalism entries, Mike Pride, the Pulitzer administrator, said in announcing the awards, which are now in their 99th year. There were also 1,400 books, 200 music compositions and 100 plays considered.