The most coveted Pulitzer Prize in journalism is the public service award, awarded to a news organization and not to individual journalists, which comes with a gold medal. Some landmark coverage that has earned the public service award includes The New York Times publication of the Pentagon Papers and The Washington Post coverage of the Watergate scandal.
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