New York: The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for their work on everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence in 2023, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for global coverage. of. Migration to America.
Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and its aftermath resulted in two Pulitzers and a Special Citation. The Times won for text coverage, which the Pulitzer Board described as “comprehensive and revelatory”, while Reuters News Service won for its photography. This citation was given to journalists and other writers covering the war in Gaza.
The prestigious public service award went to ProPublica for reporting that “pierced the thick wall of secrecy” around the U.S. Supreme Court to show how billionaires gave expensive gifts to justices and paid for luxury travel. Reporters Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierzewski and Kirsten Berg were honored for their work.
The Pulitzers honored the best in journalism in 15 categories through 2023, as well as eight arts categories focused on books, music and theater. The public service winner gets a gold medal. All other winners receive $15,000.
The 15 photos in AP’s winning entry were taken in Latin America and along the US-Mexico border in Texas and California in a year when immigration was one of the world’s biggest stories. They were shot by AP staffers Greg Bull, Eric Gay, Fernando Llano, Marco Ugarte and Eduardo Verdugo and longtime AP freelancers Christian Chávez, Félix Márquez and Ivan Valencia.
“These raw and emotional images emerged through day-to-day coverage of a historic moment in multiple countries, documenting migrants every step of their treacherous journeys,” said Julie Pace, AP senior vice president and executive editor. “
There have been more than 10 million border arrivals to the United States over the past five years, with migrants coming from many new places, such as Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti and Africa, compared to earlier eras.
The AP has won 59 Pulitzer Prizes, 36 of them for photography. The news cooperative was named a finalist for the national reporting Pulitzer on Monday for its coverage of thousands of children missing from public schools during the pandemic.
Citing the Times for its work in Israel and Gaza, the Pulitzer Board noted its coverage of the attack and Israel’s military response, as well as the country’s intelligence failures.
The award comes as The Times has faced some controversy over its coverage; Last month a group of journalism professors called on the publication to answer questions about its investigation into gender-based violence during Hamas’ attacks on Israel.
Hannah Dreier of The Times won a Pulitzer in investigative reporting for her stories on migrant child labor across the United States. Contributing writer Katie Engelhart won the newspaper’s third Pulitzer in feature writing for her portrait of a family battling a matriarch’s dementia.
Times executive Joe Kahn said, “Each of the winners and finalists demonstrates a drive for original, revelatory reporting that underpins much of what we produce, from the biggest stories in news to feature writing to classic investigations. Does.” Editor.
The Washington Post staff won national reporting for its “serious investigation” of an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle that came with some heartbreaking photos. Peter Wallstein, the Post’s senior national enterprise editor, told the newspaper, “We were eager to find a way to cover it differently and change the conversation about mass shootings.”
The Post’s David E. Hoffman won in editorial writing for a “compelling and well-researched” series on how authoritarian regimes suppress dissent in the digital age. Its third prize went to contributor Vladimir Kara-Murza for observations written from a Russian prison cell.
The New Yorker magazine won two Pulitzers. Sarah Stillman won in explanatory reporting for her report on the legal system’s reliance on felony murder charges. Contributor Medar de la Cruz won in illustrated reporting and commentary for his story that humanized prisoners at New York City’s Rikers Island prison.
The staff of Lookout Santa Cruz in California won the award in the breaking news category for what the awards board called “community-minded coverage” of floods and landslides. On its website Monday, Lookout Santa Cruz said it made its coverage free during the crisis in the community, and also used text messages to reach people without power.
“In short, we did our job,” the staff said in an unsigned article, “and we heard a lot of thanks for it. The Pulitzer is the icing on that cake.
The Pulitzers awarded second prize in national reporting to Reuters staff for an “eye-opening” series examining Elon Musk’s automobile and aerospace businesses.
In local reporting, City Bureau’s Sarah Conway and Invisible Institute’s Trina Reynolds-Tyler won for an investigative series on missing black girls and women in Chicago, showing how racism and policing contributed to the problem.
The Pulitzer in Criticism was awarded to Justin Chang of The Los Angeles Times for his thought-provoking and genre-spanning coverage of the films. The Pulitzer Board’s second special citation was awarded to the late hip-hop critic Greg Tate.
The awards are administered by Columbia University in New York, which itself has been in the news for student demonstrations against the war in Gaza. The Pulitzer board met away from Columbia last weekend to deliberate on its winners.
The Pulitzers announced that five of the 45 finalists this year used artificial intelligence in the research and reporting of their submissions. This was the first time that the Board required applicants for the award to disclose their use of AI.
The awards were established in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and were first awarded in 1917.