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Martin Pengelly, Benjamin Lee and agencies in New York

RARE PHOTOS: Washington post wins public service pulitzer for capitol attack coverage | Vintage Vibes

The Washington Post logo is seen outside its headquarters.
Sally Buzzbee, executive editor of the Post, said: ‘There is nothing more central to the American experiment than democracy … in 2021, that democracy came under attack from within.’ Photograph: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images

The Washington Post has won the 2022 Pulitzer prize for public service journalism, for The Attack, its account of the deadly assault on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump on 6 January 2021.

The paper beat two other finalists: the New York Times, for challenging official accounts of US military engagements in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, for an exposé of electrical fires in city rental operations.

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