Pulitzer Awarded to The Guardian and Washington Post for Coverage on S**wden's NSA Le

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Pulitzer Awarded to The Guardian and Washington Post for Coverage on S**wden's NSA Leaks
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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 S**wden brought to light.

The award recognized*Glenn Greenwald, Barton Gellman,*Laura Poitras and Ewan MacAskill for their reporting on the topic.

See also: Edward S**wden: The Biggest Revelations Are Yet to Come (http://mashable.com/2014/03/18/edward-s**wden-ted-2014/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


It has been about 10 months since*The Guardian and the Washington Post*published stories on the NSA's PRISM program (http://mashable.com/2013/06/06/prism-tech-companies-data-mining/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and its widespread data collection, causing privacy concerns in the tech community as well as much of the world.*Soon after, S**wden (http://mashable.com/2013/06/09/edward-s**wden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), a former CIA employee and NSA contractor, claimed responsibility for the leaked documents. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/14/pulitzer-greenwald-poitras-s**wden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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