The New York Times' James Risen reported that Snowden's decision to leak NSA documents "developed gradually, dating back at least to his time working as a technician in the Geneva station of the CIA."Snowden first made contact with Glenn Greenwald, a journalist working at The Guardian, in late 2012. He contacted Greenwald anonymously as "Cincinnatus" and said he had "sensitive documents" that he would like to share. Greenwald found the measures that the source asked him to take to secure their communications, such as encrypting email, too annoying to employ. Snowden then contacted documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras in January 2013.[93] According to Poitras, Snowden chose to contact her after seeing her New York Times documentary about NSA whistleblower William Binney. What originally attracted Snowden to both Greenwald and Poitras was a Salon article written by Greenwald detailing how Poitras' controversial films had made her a target of the government.

Greenwald began working with Snowden in either February or April 2013, after Poitras asked Greenwald to meet her in New York City, at which point Snowden began providing documents to them Barton Gellman, writing for The Washington Post, says his first "direct contact" was on May 16, 2013. According to Gellman, Snowden approached Greenwald after the Post declined to guarantee publication within 72 hours of all 41 PowerPoint slides that Snowden had leaked exposing the PRISM electronic data mining program, and to publish online an encrypted code allowing Snowden to later prove that he was the source

Snowden communicated using encrypted email, and going by the codename "Verax". He asked not to be quoted at length for fear of identification by stylometry......According to Gellman, prior to their first meeting in person, Snowden wrote, "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end." Snowden also told Gellman that until the articles were published, the journalists working with him would also be at mortal risk from the United States Intelligence Community "if they think you are the single point of failure that could stop this disclosure and make them the sole owner of this information."......On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong, where he was staying when the initial articles based on the leaked documents were published, beginning with The Guardian on June 5. Greenwald later said Snowden disclosed 9,000 to 10,000 documents

The Guardian and the Washington Post both received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

"The Guardian's chief editor, Alan Rusbridger, credited Snowden, saying "The public service in this award is significant because Snowden performed a public service."

You should really talk to Triv33 a member here as she runs a Edward Snowden group on FB and would be able to answer your question much better then I can. I followed thei story on the Guardian which at that time was a my main news source. Nowadays Alan Rusbridger is long gone and the Guardian has gone full tilt neoliberal and is publishing hit pieces on both Bernie and Corbyn. They love and endlessly tout the Blairite/ Clintonian New Labour and New Democratic party's that are being threatened by left populism.

Glenn Greenwald and Spenser Ackerman both liberal reporters have been replaced with political hacks like Richard Wolf. Sad that. Hardly any mainstream publications left that go against the neoliberal noise machine. You could also check the archives at the Guardian as the whole process of documenting and sorting though the papers was reported in real time at the time.

Kissinger got the award along with North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho (who declined it on the grounds that his opposite number in receiving the prize, Kissinger, violated an agreed-upon truce).

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/tho-facts.html

along with Le Duc Tho (declined).

be happy and proud, and if you don't get the price, you should be as happy and proud to NOT have gotten the prize, because somehow I believe the reputation of the Nobel Prize committee has been compromised and has lead to more than one or two controversies.

Of course I wish him luck, if the prize actually would help him with something more than acknowledgment of his courageous and moral character.

too. I had a security clearance back in the Army, and at first was really upset at the thought of someone divulging classified. BUT, and a big, big BUT here, once I read more, and read the book by Greenwald and then some others, he truly is a hero. And for those who still think he could have done this legally, well, there aren't many of those out on this site I imagine, but no way would we have ever heard about him if he had. When even our own Congress is in the tank for the NSA, there's simply no way he could have done that. The others who have tried, well, most of their names we don't even know unless we dig for that information outside the MSM.