Los Angeles Times photographer Carolyn Cole gets a hug from her co-worker Nicolai Ouroussoff after she won a Pulitzer prize for feature photography during a gathering inside the newsroom, Monday, April 5, 2004, in Los Angeles.(Photo: Yahoo/AP)

    BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Los Angeles Time wins five Pulitzer Prizes, with awards singling out its coverage of California widefire, and its examination of the tactics that made Wal-Mart the largest company.

Los Angeles Times photographer Carolyn Cole won a Pulitzer prize for feature photography.

    The Los Angeles Times has won five Pulitzer Prizes, with awards singling out its coverage of the devastating wildfire outbreak in southern California last autumn, and its examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world.

    In addition to the breaking news and national reporting categories, the LA Times also picked up prizes for its criticism, editorial writing and feature photography, giving the newspaper its biggest one-year batch of Pulitzers.

    The Pulitzer is widely regarded as the most prestigious US award encompassing journalism and other publications.

    In the past 12 months, scandals over falsified reporting have hit the New York Times , which won one award this year - and USA Today. Among the other journalism awards, the public service award went to the New York Times for the work of David Barstow and Lowell Bergman who investigated death and injury among American workers.

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