For its coverage of personal privacy issues, The Wall Street Journal was nominated as a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners in the Explanatory Reporting category for its "What They Know" series. In a press release from Pulitzer, The Wall Street Journal staff was included as a finalist "for its tenacious exploration of how personal information is harvested from cellphones and computers of unsuspecting Americans by corporations and public officials in a largely unmonitored realm of modern life." (Registration may be required to access to this story.)
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