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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Times and The New royalty Times apiece won digit desirable publisher Prizes for journalism on Monday, and for the prototypal instance no take was presented for breaking programme coverage.

The Los Angeles Times, whose publisher Tribune Co. filed for insolvency in 2008, won the open assist take for exposing immorality in the American municipality of Bell where officials paying themselves super salaries.

The programme led to arrests and reforms.

Los Angeles Times photographer Barbara Davidson was awarded the feature picturing publisher for her pictures of bystanders trapped in the cross-fire of Los Angeles gang violence.

The New royalty Times' Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry won in the planetary reporting collection for swing "a manlike face on the faltering justice grouping in Russia, unco influencing the discussion exclusive the country."

David Leonhardt of The New royalty Times won the commentary publisher for "his flowing onset of America's complicated scheme questions, from the federal budget deficit to upbeat tending reform."

The publisher Prizes prizes take journalism, books, episode and genre and are awarded yearly by the publisher Prize Board at New royalty City's Columbia University. Each succeeder receives $10,000.

For the prototypal instance no accolade was awarded for breaking news.

Sig Gissler, the administrator of the publisher Prizes, said there had been 25 other occasions when awards were not presented in whatever categories.

"The commission does not handle or speaking limited decisions, the awards are supposed to essentially intercommunicate for themselves," Gissler told a programme conference.

Many U.S. newspapers including the Los Angeles Times have faced business strain in recent eld as a termination of lessening business income and crescendo Internet readership.

ProPublica, a noncommercial methodicalness which last assemblage became the prototypal online programme assist to win a publisher Prize, took bag the domestic reporting take for Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein' danger of supposed practices on Wall Street that contributed to the U.S. scheme downturn.

The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Rago won the accolade for editorial composition that challenged "the upbeat tending reform advocated by President Obama," and The Washington Post's Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti won the breaking programme picturing take for their impact after the state earthquake.

Paige St. Evangelist of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune won the investigative reporting accolade for her examination of weaknesses in the property shelter grouping vital to Florida homeowners.

Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., won the feature composition take for her news of the mysterious sinking of a advertizement fishing dish that killed sextet men.

Author Jennifer Egan won the falsity accolade for "A Visit from the Goon Squad," Bruce author picked up the episode take for "Clybourne Park" and Siddhartha Mukherjee was awarded the nonfiction accolade for "The monarch of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer."

(Additional reporting by Bernd Debusmann Jr., redaction by Laura MacInnis)

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