In pics: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Award Ceremony held in New York

Staff of the New York Daily News and ProPublica, and Lee C. Bollinger (4th R), president of Columbia University, are seen on the stage during the 2017 Pulitzer Prize Award Ceremony in New York.

The New York Times' staff and Lee C. Bollinger (1st L), president of Columbia University, are seen on the stage during the 2017 Pulitzer Prize Award Ceremony. The New York Daily News and ProPublica won the prize for public service for uncovering how police abused eviction rules to oust hundreds of people, mostly poor minorities, from their homes.

David A. Fahrenthold (C) of the Washington Post, who won Pulitzer' top prize for national reporting, and Lee C. Bollinger (R), president of Columbia University, are seen on the stage during the 2017 Pulitzer Prize Award Ceremony

Pulitzer Prize Administrator Mike Pride

Pulitzer Prize Administrator Mike Pride presides over the 2017 Pulitzer Prize Award Ceremony.

Pulitzer Prize Administrator Mike Pride announced the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in the World Room at Columbia University on April 10 in New York.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)