Via ProPublica: “Christian Miller, a senior reporter for ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, a writer for The Marshall Project, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” their harrowing account of the hunt for a serial rapist. The award is the third Pulitzer Prize for ProPublica, and the first for The Marshall Project, both of which are nonprofit newsrooms.”

• Read more about this reporting.
• Read the letter to the judges.
• See also The FBI Built a Database That Can Catch Rapists — Almost Nobody Uses It – “For roughly 30 years the FBI has virtually ignored a system meant to help cops track the behavioral patterns of violent criminals.”