"The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, using any available journalistic tool, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). David Philipps of The Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO For expanding the examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses, stories augmented with digital tools and stirring congressional action. Dave Philipps has worked at The Gazette in Colorado Springs for ten years as a reporter, photographer, restaurant critic and sometimes cartoonist. Because Colorado Springs is home to more than 50,000 active duty troops, his work has often focused on the military and the unintended consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Colorado Springs native, Philipps graduated from Middlebury College in 2000 and got a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2002. He won the Livingston Award for National Reporting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting in 2010 for what judges called "his painstaking stories on the spike in violence within a battered combat brigade returning to Fort Carson after bloody deployments to Iraq, leading to increased mental health care for soldiers.""