Pulitzer Awarded to The Guardian and Washington Post for Coverage on Snowden's NSA Leaks — mashable.com

The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their reporting on the NSA surveillance that the leaked documents from Edward Snowden brought to light. The award recognized Glenn Greenwald, Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras and Ewan MacAskill for their reporting on the topic. It has been about 10 months since The Guardian and the Washington Post published stories on the NSA's PRISM program and its widespread data collection, causing privacy concerns in the tech community as well as much of the world. Soon after, Snowden, a former CIA employee and NSA contractor, claimed responsibility for the leaked documents.

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