Detroit Free Press reporter M.L. Elrick addresses the Free Press newsroom after learning he and reporter Jim Schaefer were co-winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in Detroit, Michigan, April 20, 2009. The pair of reporters uncovered a pattern of lies by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick through city text messages that led to an investigation of perjury resulting in a jail term and resignation of the mayor and his female chief of staff. Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 34 months ago

Detroit Free Press reporter M.L. Elrick addresses the Free Press newsroom after learning he and reporter Jim Schaefer were co-winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in Detroit, Michigan, April 20, 2009. The pair of reporters uncovered a pattern of lies by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick through city text messages that led to an investigation of perjury resulting in a jail term and resignation of the mayor and his female chief of staff.

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