NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Instances received 4 Pulitzer Prizes and the New Yorker three on Monday for journalism in 2024 that touched on subjects just like the fentanyl disaster, the U.S. navy and final summer season’s assassination try on President Donald Trump.
The Pulitzers’ prestigious public service medal went to ProPublica for the second straight 12 months. Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz have been honored for reporting on pregnant girls who died after docs delayed pressing care in states with strict abortion legal guidelines.
The Washington Put up received for “urgent and illuminating” breaking information protection of the Trump assassination try. The Pulitzers honored Ann Telnaes, who give up the Put up in January after the information outlet refused to run her editorial cartoon lampooning tech chiefs — together with Put up proprietor Jeff Bezos — cozying as much as Trump. The Pulitzers praised her “fearlessness.”
The Pulitzers honored the most effective in journalism from 2024 in 15 classes, together with eight arts classes together with books, music and theater. The general public service winner receives a gold medal. All different winners obtain $15,000.
The New York Instances confirmed its breadth with awards honoring reporting from Afghanistan, Sudan, Baltimore and Butler, Pennsylvania. Doug Mills received in breaking information images for his photos of the Trump assassination try, together with one which captured a bullet within the air close to the GOP candidate.
The Instances’ Azam Ahmed and Christina Goldbaum and contributing author Matthieu Aikins received an explanatory reporting prize for analyzing U.S. coverage failures in Afghanistan. Declan Walsh and the Instances’ workers received for an investigation into the Sudan battle.
Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher received in native reporting, an award shared by the Instances and The Baltimore Banner, for reporting on that metropolis’s fentanyl disaster and its disproportionate have an effect on on black males. The Banner created a statistical mannequin shared with different newsrooms.
Reuters received for its personal investigative collection on fentanyl, displaying how lax regulation each inside and outdoors the USA makes the drug cheap and extensively accessible. inewsource.org in San Diego was a finalist within the illustrated reporting and commentary class for its tales on fentanyl.
The New Yorker’s Mosab Abu Toha received for his commentaries on Gaza. The journal additionally received for its “In the Dark” podcast in regards to the killing of Iraqi civilians by the U.S. navy and in characteristic images for Moises Saman’s photos of the Sednaya jail in Syria.
The Wall Road Journal received a Pulitzer for its reporting on Elon Musk, “including his turn to conservative politics, his use of legal and illegal drugs and his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” the Pulitzer board stated. The Journal was additionally a finalist for its “cool-headed” reporting on the plight of Evan Gershkovich, who was imprisoned in Russia.
The Pulitzers additionally gave a particular quotation to the late Chuck Stone for his work masking the civil rights motion. The pioneering journalist was the primary Black columnist on the Philadelphia Each day Information and based the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists.
Mark Warren of Esquire received the characteristic writing prize for his portrait of a Baptist pastor and small-town mayor who died by suicide after his secret on-line life was uncovered by a right-wing information website.
Alexandra Lange, a contributing author for Bloomberg CityLab received an award in criticism for “graceful and genre-expanding” writing about public areas for households.
The Houston Chronicle Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz received the Pulitzer in editorial writing for its collection on harmful practice crossings.
The Related Press was a finalist in breaking information reporting for its personal protection of the Trump assassination try, and in investigative reporting for its partnership with PBS’ “Frontline” in tales documenting greater than 1,000 deaths by the hands of police utilizing strategies of subduing those that have been imagined to be non-lethal.
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