The Washington Post was the big winner at the Pulitzer Awards on Monday, snatching six awards and becoming the newspaper with the second-most wins in one year.

The Post won the public service award for the light brought on the neglected wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The work involved efforts from reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull, and the photographer Michel du Cille.

The national reporting award went to The Post’s Jo Becker and Barton Gellman for the work on the material presenting Vice President Dick Chaney and the international reporting prize went to Steve Fainaru for his Iraq related investigations.

Steven Pearlstein, also from The Post, won for commentary and Gene Weingarten won the feature writing award for an article on a world-famous violinist entertaining subway travelers with his music.

The New York Times were represented by their three winners, Amy Harmon with the explanatory journalism award on the new world of genetic testing and also Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker with their investigative reporting prize received for articles on counterfeit and drugs from China.

The Chicago Tribune also had an investigative reporting prize for their exposure of government negligence on regulation of cribs, car seats and toys.

The award ceremony was indeed memorable, being only the fourth time in its 92-year-long tradition that a newspaper received more than three prizes. The New York Times had seven wins in 2002, The Los Angeles Times had four in 2004 and The Post had four wins in 2006.

According to the Associated Press, Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said: "This is actually a boost to remind people that we can produce this kind of journalism at any time. We're going to have a large enough newsroom to continue to produce this kind of quality journalism."