The New York Times won three Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including for an investigation into how President Trump is profiting from his deals and journalistic photographs documenting hunger and destruction in Gaza. The Times also won for its opinion pieces, for M. Gessen’s columns analyzing the rise of authoritarianism.
The Athletic, the sports site owned by The New York Times Company, won in the audio category for the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out.” The podcast is produced by Meadowlark Media and licensed to The Athletic.
Reuters and The Washington Post won two awards each. The Post won the prestigious public service award for its in-depth coverage of the Trump administration’s overhaul of federal agencies, including the extent of the job and funding cuts and how they were reshaping the country.
The Pulitzer Prizes, first awarded in 1917, are awarded annually by Columbia University for excellence in journalism, literature and the arts. The journalism winners are decided by juries from a group of more than a thousand candidates.
The breaking news reporting award went to The Minnesota Star Tribune staff for coverage of a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis that left two children dead and many more injured.
The Times staff won investigative reporting for articles that revealed the extent to which Trump and his inner circle were enriching themselves through national security deals.
The explanatory reporting award was awarded to Susie Neilson, Megan Fan Munce and Sara DiNatale of The San Francisco Chronicle for “Burned,” a series that uncovered the flawed algorithms used by insurers that devastated Californians who lost their homes to wildfires.
The Pulitzers reintroduced the beat reporting category this year after 20 years. Reuters’ Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham received the award for their reporting showing how Meta tolerated scam ads and banned products to protect its income. Reuters also received the award for its national reporting. The staff members involved, including Ned Parker, Linda So, Peter Eisler and Mike Spector, examined how the president expanded his executive power and sought retaliation for his political enemies.
Another new category this year was opinion writing, replacing the previous categories of editorial writing and commentary. M. Gessen of The Times received the award for a collection of essays that blended history and the author’s personal experience in his native Russia to examine the actions of the Trump administration.
The award for local reporting went to two winners. Chicago Tribune staff were honored for coverage of the citywide immigration raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And The Connecticut Mirror’s Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk, along with ProPublica’s Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne, were honored for a series that showed how Connecticut’s towing laws had favored towing companies over drivers.
Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Yael Grauer of The Associated Press received the international reporting award for an investigation that showed how American-made surveillance technology is used around the world for mass surveillance by governments.
The award for best article went to Aaron Parsley of Texas Monthly for his personal account of surviving the central Texas floods in July that destroyed his home and took the life of his nephew.
Mark Lamster of The Dallas Morning News received the critics’ award for his architectural criticism, which the Pulitzer board said used “wit and experience to amplify his opinions and advocate for the city’s residents.”
The award for illustrated reporting and commentary went to Bloomberg’s Anand RK, Suparna Sharma and Natalie Obiko Pearson for “trAPPed,” a graphic novel that shows how digital scams target wealthy Indians using the threat of arrest and forcing them to comply with strange conditions.
Saher Alghorra, a contributor to The Times, received the breaking news photography award for a series of images showing the widespread food deprivation of Palestinians in Gaza as a result of the war with Israel.
The Washington Post’s Jahi Chikwendiu won the photography award for a photo essay showing a young man with colon cancer welcoming his firstborn as his disease takes hold.
The audio reporting award, which was introduced as a Pulitzer category in 2020, went to the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” staff for an investigation into allegations that the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented the National Basketball Association’s salary cap by paying extra money to a star player through a separate entity. The podcast became part of the Athletic Podcast Network in September through a licensing agreement.
The Pulitzer board awarded a special citation to Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald for her work in 2017 and 2018 that exposed how Jeffrey Epstein was protected by prosecutors despite his systematic abuse of young women. His reporting led to his arrest in 2019.
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