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Three OU alums win Pulitzer Prizes for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post

LA Times

Hailey Branson-Potts tweeted this photo on April 18 with the following caption: "All the gas station food & Red Bulls from my car after covering San Bernardino. Today won for it."

 Hailey Branson-Potts (@haileybranson) on Twitter.

Three OU graduates were awarded Pulitzer Prizes today for their work in the field of journalism.

Hailey Branson-Potts and Mark Potts, who graduated from the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, were honored for their contributions to The Los Angeles Times' coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. In the cover letter to enter for the prize, Davan Maharaj, the editor-in-chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Times Media Group, said the newspaper provided the "most current, most accurate and most comprehensive reporting on the tragedy."

Additionally, the staff of The Washington Post was honored for "its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely to be." Among the members of the staff was OU graduate David Fallis, who serves as the organization's deputy investigations editor. The Post's database examines every fatal shooting by an on-duty officer in 2015. 

To see the complete list of 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners, click here. 

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