The New York Times won three Pulitzer Prize awards on Monday, including for an investigation into how President Trump is profiting from his deal-making and news photography documenting starvation and destruction in Gaza. The Times also won for opinion writing, for columns by M. Gessen 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 by The Athletic.
Reuters and The Washington Post each won two awards. The Post won the prestigious public service prize for its exhaustive coverage of the Trump administration’s overhaul of federal agencies, including the extent of job and funding cuts and how they were reshaping the country.
The Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917, are given out annually by Columbia University for excellence in journalism, literature and the arts. The journalism winners are decided by juries from a pool of more than a thousand entries.
The breaking news reporting prize went to the staff of The Minnesota Star Tribune for coverage of a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis that left two children dead and injured many more.
The staff of The Times won for investigative reporting for articles that revealed the extent to which Mr. Trump and his inner circle were enriching themselves through national security dealings.
The explanatory reporting award was given to Susie Neilson, Megan Fan Munce and Sara DiNatale of The San Francisco Chronicle for “Burned,” a series that uncovered the faulty algorithms that were used by insurers and that devastated Californians who lost their homes to wildfires.
The Pulitzers reintroduced the beat reporting category this year after 20 years. Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham of Reuters received the award for their reporting that showed how Meta tolerated ads for scams and banned products to protect its revenue. Reuters was also awarded the prize for 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 retribution for his political enemies.
Another new category this year was opinion writing, instead of the previous editorial writing and commentary categories. M. Gessen of The Times was given the award for a collection of reported essays that mixed history and the author’s personal experience in their native Russia to examine the actions of the Trump administration.
The local reporting prize went to two winners. The staff of The Chicago Tribune was awarded for coverage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s immigration sweep throughout the city. And Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror, along with Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica, were awarded for a series that showed how Connecticut’s towing laws had led to the towing companies being favored over drivers.
Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Yael Grauer of The Associated Press were given the international reporting prize for an investigation that showed how American-made surveillance technology is used around the world for mass surveillance by governments.
The feature writing prize 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 was awarded the criticism prize for his architecture criticism, which the Pulitzer Prize Board said used “wit and expertise to amplify his opinions and advocate for city residents.”
Saher Alghorra, a contributor to The Times, received the breaking news photography prize for a series of images that depicted the widespread food deprivation for Palestinians in Gaza as a result of the war with Israel.
Jahi Chikwendiu of The Washington Post won the feature photography prize for a photo essay showing a young man with colon cancer welcoming his firstborn child as his illness took hold.
The audio reporting prize, which was introduced as a Pulitzer category in 2020, went to the staff of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” for an investigation into allegations that the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented the National Basketball Association’s salary cap by paying a star player extra money through a separate entity. The podcast became part of the Athletic Podcast Network in September in a licensing deal.
A special citation was awarded by the Pulitzer Board to Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald for her work in 2017 and 2018 that exposed how Jeffrey Epstein was shielded by prosecutors despite his systematic abuse of young women. Her reporting led to his arrest in 2019.
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