2014 April 14

Pulitzer Prizes for Snowden-Related NSA Stories

 

The 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was awarded to the Guardian US and the Washington Post for their stories on National Security Agency (NSA) spying based on documents leaked to them by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contract employee.

The first stories appeared on June 5, 2013, and additional stories continued for months, extending into 2014. On February 16, 2014, reporters also won the prestigious George Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism for their stories based on the Snowden-released documents.

For other events related to revelations based on the Snowden documents, see June 6, 2013, August 15, 2013, October 23, 2013, December 16, 2013.

Get the full story: Luke Harding, The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man (2014)

Read Snowden’s autobiography: Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (2019)

Learn more; documents and analysis of the Snowden/NSA documents at the National Security Archive: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB436/

Watch an interview with Snowden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yB3n9fu-rM

Read the first-hand report: Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014)

Watch the acclaimed film about Snowden: Citizenfour (2014)

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