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The Washington Post stories that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, why?

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2°C: Beyond the Limit was granted the Pulitzer for informative detailing; The Post additionally had finalists for open help, breaking news and analysis

By Washington Post Staff

The staff of The Washington Post won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in logical announcing for its arrangement on environmental change, 2°C: Beyond the Limit, which in a general sense reshaped the atmosphere banter by demonstrating that outrageous warming isn't a concern for the future — 10 percent of the planet has just warmed by 2 degrees Celsius. 

To pass on the staggering truth of present-day environmental change, The Post revealed from twelve worldwide problem areas and marshaled huge datasets to assist perusers with envisioning our quickly warming planet. 

The Post's staff was additionally a finalist in two different classes: open assistance, for an examination of the narcotic pestilence; and breaking news, for double inclusion of the Dayton and El Paso shootings. Post sports writer Sally Jenkins was a finalist for analysis too. 

Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for arrangement that itemized natural annihilation in worldwide hot spots

Connections that were submitted as passages to the Pulitzer board from the environmental change arrangement and every one of The Post's finalists are incorporated beneath: 

Victor: 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

The Staff of The Washington Post

For a pivotal arrangement that appeared with logical lucidity the desperate impacts of extraordinary temperatures on the planet. 

For its "2C: Beyond the Limit" arrangement, The Washington Post examined worldwide datasets following about 170 years of temperature records to outline place that has just warmed by 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) — the edge universal mediators trust the planet all in all will never reach. This enormous, spearheading utilization of temperature information exhibited that outrageous environmental change is as of now a life changing reality across 10 percent of the Earth's surface. Scholars and picture takers were dispatched to create profoundly announced messages from a hotter, progressively whimsical future. 

The arrangement at the same time depended on and demystified the study of environmental change — for example, permitting perusers to interface with a turning globe that featured the zones of most prominent warming. The work was experimentally exceptional, however the outcomes were easy to comprehend. 

The exertion was incited by a couple of disturbing examinations that found that creepy crawlies and winged animals were vanishing in Puerto Rico and the Mojave Desert. The Post saw a key detail: These areas were warming up a lot quicker than the worldwide normal. Working with information from Berkeley Earth, a not-for-profit atmosphere inquire about gathering, and that of different specialists, we mapped temperature change over a century. 

The interactive media arrangement included 12 stories that accepting perusers to places as shifted and remote the disturbed waters in the Sea of Okhotsk, the outside cooling in a portion of Qatar's arenas and markets, and a well known New Jersey resort whose lake once provided the fridges of New York City. Presently the water no longer freezes sufficiently thick to support ice angling. 

The examination added to our comprehension of the disintegration of winter and quickly changing sea flows — a large number of the last not recently announced. Furthermore, it permitted The Post to make the designs and livelinesss that let perusers perceive how serious environmental change has influenced their own districts and nations. 

Extraordinary environmental change has shown up in America

Hazardous new hot zones are spreading the world over

The atmosphere chain response that compromises the core of the Pacific

Ashore, Australia's rising warmth is 'prophetically catastrophic.' In the sea, it's more awful.

Confronting excruciating warmth, Qatar has started to cool the outside

Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on insecure ground

Flames, floods and free stopping: California's ceaseless battle against environmental change

'The ice used to ensure them. Presently their island is disintegrating into the ocean.'

Confronting calamitous environmental change, they despite everything can't stop Big Oil

'How we realize an unnatural weather change is genuine'


Well being written and indicated for momentous, information driven news coverage that utilized recently shrouded government records and secret organization reports to give uncommon knowledge into America's savage narcotic scourge. 

It is perhaps the greatest story within recent memory and it was stowing away on display: How did the narcotic pestilence overwhelm America? The overarching story offered a too-simple substitute. Purdue Pharma during the 1990s released an apparent marvel medication, OxyContin, and dependent millions. In any case, the pandemic took off after Purdue was handled and fined $600 million. If not Purdue, who drove the pandemic? What's more, for what reason didn't anybody stop them? 

The Washington Post conclusively responded to these inquiries in 2019, building up a precise story that carried responsibility to the organizations in question and the administration authorities who neglected to act. 

The Post discovered that a mystery DEA database contained a shrouded guide to the plague, following each narcotic pill from producer to drug store. The Post and the proprietor of the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette-Mail sued to get the information. Following a year-long legitimate battle, a government offers court decided for The Post and Gazette-Mail. The database contained 380 million records and was by a long shot the biggest we have ever worked with. Under colossal cutoff time tension, The Post delivered restrictive stories and intuitive databases highlighting the greatest wholesalers: McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health, Walgreens, Walmart. The greatest producer was an organization scarcely any individuals had ever known about: SpecGx, an auxiliary of Mallinckrodt. 

The Post distributed the whole informational index, permitting perusers to perceive what number of pills came into their local drug stores and who sent them. Correspondents at 129 news sources utilized the information to compose their own accounts and 44,000 people downloaded the whole set. 

76 billion narcotic pills: Newly discharged government information exposes the scourge

Boring into the DEA's agony pill database

Narcotic demise rates took off in networks where torment pills streamed

A remote Virginia valley has been overwhelmed by remedy narcotics

Interior medication organization messages demonstrate lack of concern to narcotic scourge

A surge of pills, a huge number of passings: Who is responsible?

Video: "We were dependent on their pill, however they were dependent on target"

Recently unlocked shows in narcotic case uncover internal activities of the medication business

Little-known creators of nonexclusive medications assumed focal job in narcotic emergency, records appear

As overdoses took off, about 35 billion narcotics — half of circulated pills — dealt with by 15 percent of drug stores

Realistic: what number torment pills went to your drug store?

Inside the medication business' arrangement to crush the DEA

Overflowed with narcotics, Appalachia is as yet attempting to recuperate

The fentanyl disappointment

How a back physical issue transformed a gushing dad into a fentanyl boss

The progression of fentanyl: Via the post office, over the fringe

At stature of emergency, Walgreens dealt with almost one out of five of the most addictive narcotics

Inside the business' promoting machine

Could the DEA have halted the narcotic pandemic by removing the flexibly?

Another glance at how the narcotic pestilence advanced