Of those 9 prizes only two are related to actually reporting news. The rest are for cartoons or photography. The world is full of people giving away photos for

Of those 9 prizes only two are related to actually reporting news. The rest are for cartoons or photography. The world is full of people giving away photos for free, and as for "editorial cartooning", well ... the world is also full of people being funny for free. Of the two prizes for news reporting both were for mass shootings that happened to take place locally. I am skeptical these prizes were awarded based on some objective evaluation of their reporting skill; the Pulitzer is probably just awarded on the basis of emotions. Like so much else in journalism, there are no systems worth a damn.