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ProPublica, in an historic first for online journalism, won a coveted Pulitzer Prize on Monday for investigative reporting about controversial deaths at a New Orleans medical center following Hurricane Katrina.

After spending half of the last year developing Harvey—an adaptation of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a man who becomes friends with a tall, invisible rabbit, which was previously a 1950 film starring Jimmy Stewart—director Steven Spielberg has decided to withdraw from making the film, according to Variety.

Director decides on a redo of 1950 Jimmy Stewart film, based on a Pulitzer-winning play, as his next project.

Author Frank McCourt, whose tragic childhood became creative grist for his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday, according to the Web site of his publisher, Simon & Shuster.

A five-part Los Angeles Times series on the futility of government efforts to quell the growing threat of wildfires won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday, and the New York Times claimed five of journalism's highest awards in a year that recognized the watchdog function of the press even as newspapers struggle to survive.