PUBLIC SERVICE<\/p>\n
The Washington Post<\/p>\n
The Pulitzer committee honored The Washington Post for, as it put it, \u201cpiercing the veil of secrecy around the Trump administration\u2019s chaotic overhaul of federal agencies and chronicling in rich detail the human impacts of the cuts and the consequences for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists The Chicago Tribune; Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo of The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n
BREAKING NEWS<\/p>\n
The Minnesota Star Tribune<\/p>\n
The staff of The Minnesota Star Tribune won for its reporting on a shooting at a Catholic school that killed two children and wounded 17. The committee called the reporting \u201cpowerful\u201d and \u201cmarked by thoroughness and compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists Staff of The Seattle Times; staff of the Southern California News Group; staff of The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING<\/p>\n
The New York Times<\/p>\n
The New York Times received the award for what the committee called \u201cdeeply reported stories that exposed how President Trump has shattered constraints on conflicts of interest and exploited the moneymaking opportunities that come with power, enriching his family and allies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists Debbie Cenziper, Megan Rose and Brandon Roberts of ProPublica; Cynthia Dizikes and Joaquin Palomino of The San Francisco Chronicle<\/p>\n
EXPLANATORY REPORTING<\/p>\n
Susie Nelson, Megan Fan Munce and Sara DiNatale of The San Francisco Chronicle<\/p>\n
The committee awarded the journalists for their series, \u201cBurned,\u201d which demonstrated how insurance companies using algorithms \u201chave failed Californians who lost their homes to fire by systematically undervaluing their properties, denying claims, and making it impossible for them to rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists Staff of Bloomberg News; Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester of ProPublica<\/p>\n
beat REPORTING<\/p>\n
Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham of Reuters<\/p>\n
Mr. Horwitz and Ms. Tham won for \u201cinventive and revelatory reporting on Meta that detailed the technology company\u2019s willingness to expose users, including children, to scams and A.I. manipulation,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n
Finalists Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times; Nick Miroff of The Atlantic<\/p>\n
LOCAL REPORTING<\/p>\n
Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica; and Staff of The Chicago Tribune<\/p>\n
The Pulitzer committee awarded two prizes in this category. One was shared by Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryn of ProPublica for what the committee called \u201can impressive series exposing how the state\u2019s unique towing laws favored unscrupulous companies that overcharged residents, prompting swift and meaningful consumer protections.\u201d The staff of The Chicago Tribune took the other prize for its reporting on \u201cthe Trump administration\u2019s militarized immigration sweep of the city that described in vivid, muscular prose how the siege-like incursion of ICE agents unified Chicagoans in resistance,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n
Finalists Liz Bowie, Greg Morton, Ryan Little and Allan James Vestal of The Baltimore Banner; Staffs of The Miami Herald and WLRN<\/p>\n
NATIONAL REPORTING<\/p>\n
Ned Parker, Linda So, Peter Eisler and Mike Spector of Reuters<\/p>\n
The team of Reuters reporters won for \u201cdocumenting how the president used the U.S. government and the influence of his supporters to expand executive power and exact vengeance on his foes,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n
Finalists Staff of Bloomberg News; staff of The Washington Post<\/p>\n
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING<\/p>\n
Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Yael Grauer (Contributor) of The Associated Press<\/p>\n
The A.P. team received the award for what the committee called \u201can astonishing global investigation into state-of-the-art tools of mass surveillance, created in Silicon Valley, advanced in China, and spreading worldwide before returning to America for secret new uses by the U.S. Border Patrol.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists Stephanie Nolen of The New York Times; staff of The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n
Feature writing<\/p>\n
Aaron Parsley of Texas Monthly<\/p>\n
The committee gave the prize to Mr. Parsley for his \u201cextraordinary personal account of survival and loss written days after the historic Central Texas floods that tore the writer\u2019s house out from under him and his family, taking the life of his nephew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists Emily Baumgaertner Nunn of The New York Times; Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker<\/p>\n
CRITICISM<\/p>\n
Mark Lamster of The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n
Mr. Lamster won for \u201chis rigorous and passionate architecture criticism, using wit and expertise to amplify his opinions and advocate for city residents,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n
Finalists Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker; Michael J. Lewis of The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n
Opinion writing<\/p>\n
M. Gessen of The New York Times<\/p>\n
The committee said it gave the award to M. Gessen for their \u201cilluminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw on history and personal experience to probe timely themes of oppression, belonging and exile.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists Gustavo Arellano of The Los Angeles Times; Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times<\/p>\n
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary<\/p>\n
Anand RK and Suparna Sharma, contributors, and Natalie Obiko Pearson of Bloomberg News<\/p>\n
Anand RK and Suparna Sharma, contributors, and Natalie Obiko Pearson of Bloomberg News were honored for the graphic novel \u201ctrAPPed,\u201d which the Pulitzer committee called \u201ca riveting account of a neurologist in India threatened with \u2018digital arrest\u2019 by phone, visuals and words that cast light on the growing challenges of surveillance and digital scams.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists Ivan Ehlers, freelancer; Peter Kuper, freelancer; Adolfo Arranz, Poppy McPherson, Devjyot Ghoshal and Han Huang of Reuters<\/p>\n
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
Saher Alghorra, Contributor, The New York Times<\/p>\n
The committee recognized Mr. Alghorra for his \u201chaunting, sensitive series showing the devastation and starvation in Gaza resulting from the war with Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists Photography staff of The Los Angeles Times; photography staff of Reuters.<\/p>\n
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
Jahi Chikwendiu, The Washington Post<\/p>\n
Jahi Chikwendiu was honored \u201cfor a heart-wrenching and achingly beautiful photo essay on a young family welcoming the birth of their first child as the father is slowly dying from cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists Gabrielle Lurie of The San Francisco Chronicle; photography staff of The New York Times.<\/p>\n
AUDIO REPORTING<\/p>\n
\u201cPablo Torre Finds Out\u201d<\/p>\n
The staff of \u201cPablo Torre Finds Out\u201d won for a form of live podcast journalism that investigated \u201chow the Los Angeles Clippers seemingly evaded the N.B.A.\u2019s salary cap by funneling money to a star player.\u201d The podcast is produced by Meadowlark Media and licensed by The Athletic, a sports site owned by The New York Times Company.<\/p>\n
Finalists Azeen Ghorayshi and Austin Mitchell of The New York Times; Valerie Bauerlein, Heather Rogers, Colin McNulty, Nathan Singhapok and Rachel Humphreys of The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n
FICTION<\/p>\n
\u201cAngel Down,\u201d by Daniel Kraus<\/p>\n
Mr. Kraus\u2019s book was honored as \u201ca stylistic tour-de-force\u201d that blends allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a whole \u2014 told in a single sentence.<\/p>\n
Finalists \u201cAudition,\u201d by Katie Kitamura; \u201cStag Dance,\u201d by Torrey Peters.<\/p>\n
DRAMA<\/p>\n
\u201cLiberation,\u201d by Bess Wohl<\/p>\n
Ms. Wohl\u2019s play was honored for exploring \u201cthe legacy of the consciousness-raising feminist groups of the 1970s, using the story of her own mother to demonstrate how the movement grew out of conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists \u201cBowl EP,\u201d by Nazareth Hassan; \u201cMeet the Cartozians,\u201d by Talene Monahon<\/p>\n
HISTORY<\/p>\n
\u201cWe the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution,\u201d by Jill Lepore<\/p>\n
Ms. Lepore won the prize for \u201ca lively and engaging narrative that investigates why the Constitution is so difficult to amend, including a review of noteworthy failed amendments proposed by marginalized groups,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n
Finalists \u201cKing of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation,\u201d by Scott Anderson; \u201cBorn in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City,\u201d by Bench Ansfield<\/p>\n
biography<\/p>\n
\u201cPride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution,\u201d by Amanda Vaill<\/p>\n
The committee honored Ms. Vaill\u2019s book, a biography of two daughters of wealthy Dutch landowners, which it said used \u201cpresent tense to tell their story and past tense to chronicle the dramatic sweep of the American Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists \u201cThe Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford,\u201d by James McWilliams; \u201cTrue Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen,\u201d by Lance Richardson<\/p>\n
MEMOIR OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
\u201cThings in Nature Merely Grow,\u201d by Yiyun Li<\/p>\n
Ms. Li won for her \u201cmoving and revelatory account\u201d of losing her younger son to suicide several years after her older son died in the same way. It is \u201can austere and defiant memoir of acceptance that focuses on facts, language and the persistence of life,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n
Finalists \u201cI\u2019ll Tell You When I\u2019m Home,\u201d by Hala Alyan; \u201cClam Down,\u201d by Anelise Chen; \u201cBibliophobia,\u201d by Sarah Chihaya<\/p>\n
poetry<\/p>\n
\u201cArs Poeticas,\u201d by Juliana Spahr<\/p>\n
Ms. Spahr\u2019s collection, in which \u201cthe poet takes stock of her personal disillusionment,\u201d won for examining her relationship to her art form, community and politics, the committee said.<\/p>\n
Finalists \u201cI Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always,\u201d by Douglas Kearney; \u201cThe Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems,\u201d by Patricia Smith<\/p>\n
GENERAL NONFICTION<\/p>\n
\u201cThere Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,\u201d by Brian Goldstone<\/p>\n
Mr. Goldstone\u2019s book, the committee said, was \u201ca feat of reportage, analysis and storytelling focusing on the issues that have created a national crisis of family homelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists \u201cA Flower Traveled in My Blood,\u201d by Haley Cohen Gilliland; \u201cMother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church,\u201d by Kevin Sack<\/p>\n
MUSIC<\/p>\n
\u201cPicaflor: A Future Myth,\u201d by Gabriela Lena Frank<\/p>\n
Ms. Frank was honored for composing a \u201csymphonic work informed by her personal experiences with California wildfires and Andean legend.\u201d It follows a hummingbird through its attempts to escape cataclysms.<\/p>\n
Finalists \u201cIn the Arms of the Beloved,\u201d by Billy Childs; \u201cAmerican Descent,\u201d by Andrew Rindfleisch<\/p>\n
SPECIAL CITATION<\/p>\n
Julie K. Brown<\/p>\n
The Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown was awarded a special citation for her reporting in 2017 and 2018 that exposed Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s abuse of young women, the system that protected him and his network of enablers. Her series, \u201cPerversion of Justice,\u201d published nearly a decade ago, revealed how prosecutors shielded Mr. Epstein from federal sex trafficking charges, and gives voice to the scores of victims abused by him and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUBLIC SERVICE The Washington Post The Pulitzer committee honored The Washington Post for, as it put it, \u201cpiercing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[118,86562,86563,86564,86565,86566,63796,86572,86571,9,11,10,980,4468,9132,86570,86561,71052,86569,86568,9277,86567,4802,1212],"class_list":["post-219789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-associated-press","tag-atlantic-monthly","tag-bloomberg-news","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-connecticut-mirror","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-miami-herald","tag-minnesota-star-tribune","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-times","tag-news-and-news-media","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-propublica","tag-pulitzer-prizes","tag-san-francisco-chronicle","tag-seattle-times","tag-texas-monthly","tag-the","tag-thomson-reuters-corporation","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}