NEW YORK
The Washington Post and The Guardian US were awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize on Monday for their stories on the "revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency", said the Pulitzer committee on its website.
Both newspapers papers received the renowned prize for “helping through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy.”
National Security Agency’s widespread secret surveillance program was divulged last year with reports leaked from the ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The first Snowden files were published in June 2013 simultaneously in The Washington Post and The Guardian.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded by the Columbia University journalism school.
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