PUBLIC SERVICE
ProPublica
The Pulitzer Committee recognized ProPublica for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg, citing their “groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that has broken through the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court.”
Finalists KFF Health News and Cox Media Group; The Washington Post
LATEST NEWS
Employees at Lookout Santa Cruz
Lookout Santa Cruz won for “its detailed and skillful, community-focused coverage over a holiday weekend of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses.”
Finalists Honolulu Civil Beat staff; Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Investigative reporting
Hannah Dreier of The New York Times
Ms. Dreier was honored for “a deeply reported series of stories that reveal the staggering extent of migrant child labor in the United States — and the corporate and government failures that perpetuate it.”
Finalists Bloomberg employee; Casey Ross and Robert Herman of Stat
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Sarah Stillman of the New Yorker
Ms. Stillman’s work is a “devastating indictment of our legal system’s reliance on felony murder charges and its disparate consequences, which are often devastating for communities of color,” the committee said.
Finalists Bloomberg employee; Staff at The Texas Tribune, ProPublica and Frontline
LOCAL REPORTING
Sarah Conway from City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler from Invisible Institute
Ms. Conway and Ms. Reynolds-Tyler were honored for “their investigative series on missing Black girls and women in Chicago, which exposed how systemic racism and police neglect contributed to the crisis.”
Finalists Jerry Mitchell, Ilyssa Daly, Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield of Mississippi Today and The New York Times; Staff at The Villages Daily Sun
NATIONAL REPORTING
Reuters Staff Writer and Washington Post Staff Writer
There were two winners in this year’s National Reporting category. The Reuters staff won for “an eye-opening series of accountability reports” focused on the automotive and aerospace companies led by billionaire Elon Musk. The Washington Post staff won for “their sobering examination of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.”
Finalists Bianca Vazquez Toness and Sharon Lurye of The Associated Press; Dave Philipps of The New York Times
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
New York Times Staff Writer
The New York Times won for its “comprehensive and insightful coverage of Hamas’ deadly attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli military’s comprehensive, deadly response in Gaza,” the committee said.
Finalists Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios of The New York Times; Washington Post Staff Writer
Feature writing
Katie Engelhart, Author, The New York Times
Ms. Engelhart was honored “for her fair portrayal of a family’s legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch’s advancing dementia.” Her article “sensitively examines the mystery of human beings,” the committee said.
Finalists Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Project, co-published with The New York Times Magazine; Jennifer Sr. from The Atlantic
COMMENT
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Staff Writer, The Washington Post
The committee highlighted Mr. Kara-Murza’s “passionate columns, written at great personal risk from his prison cell, in which he warned of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisted on a democratic future for his country.”
Finalists Brian Lyman of The Alabama Reflector; Jay Caspian Kang of the New Yorker
CRITICISM
Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times
Mr. Chang’s film review “reflects the contemporary cinematic experience,” the committee said, praising it as “extremely impressive and cross-genre.”
Finalists Zadie Smith, staff writer, The New York Review of Books; Vinson Cunningham of the New Yorker
EDITORIAL WRITING
David E. Hoffman of The Washington Post
Mr. Hoffman was honored for his “compelling and well-researched series on new technologies and the tactics that authoritarian regimes use to suppress dissent in the digital age, and how to combat them.”
Finalists Isadora Rangel of the Miami Herald; Brandon McGinley and Rebecca Spiess of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Illustrated reporting and comments
Medar de la Cruz, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Mr. de la Cruz was honored for “his visual story at Rikers Island Prison with bold black-and-white images that humanize the prisoners and staff through their hunger for books.”
Finalists Clay Bennett of The Chattanooga Times Free Press; Angie Wang, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Washington Post Staff Writers Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca and Ren Galeno
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Reuters Photography Staff
The photography team won for “raw and powerful photos documenting Hamas’ deadly attack in Israel on October 7 and the first weeks of Israel’s devastating attack on Gaza.”
Finalists Adem Altan of Agence France Presse; Nicole S. Hester of The Tennessean
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Photo Staff, The Associated Press
The journalists were honored for “poignant photographs documenting unprecedented masses of migrants and their arduous journey from Colombia north to the United States border.”
Finalists Nanna Heitmann, Staff Writer, The New York Times; Hannah Reyes Morales, Staff Writer, The New York Times
AUDIO REPORTING
Employees of the Invisible Institute and USG Audio
The two newsrooms won for a “powerful series that explores a Chicago hate crime from the 1990s, a fluid mix of memoir, community history and journalism.”
Finalists Dan Slepian and Preeti Varathan, NBC News contributors; New Hampshire Public Radio’s Lauren Chooljian, Alison Macadam, Jason Moon, Daniel Barrick and Katie Colaneri
FICTION
“Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips is set after the Civil War.
Ms. Phillips won for her “beautifully rendered novel set in the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in post-Civil War West Virginia, where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother suffered prolonged abuse at the hands of a Confederate soldier.” I fight for healing.”
Finalists “Wednesday’s Child” by Yiyun Li; “Same Bed Different Dreams” by Ed Park
THEATRE
“Primary Trust” by Eboni Booth
The committee described Ms. Booth’s play “Primary Trust” as a “simple and elegantly crafted story of an emotionally damaged man who finds a new job, new friends and new self-esteem, illustrating how small acts of kindness can change a person’s life.” enrich an entire community.”
Finalists “Here Are Blueberries” by Moses Kaufman and Amanda Gronich; “Public Obscenities” by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
STORY
“No Right to an Honest Life: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War” by Jacqueline Jones
Ms. Jones was recognized for her “original reconstruction of free black life in Boston, fundamentally transforming our understanding of the city’s abolitionist legacy and the challenging realities for its black residents.”
Finalists “Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion” by Elliott West; “American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Radical Immigrants and the U.S. Government in the Early 20th Century” by Michael Willrich
biography
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig and Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
Two awards were given in this category. Mr. Eig was honored for “an insightful portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. that draws on new sources to enrich our understanding of each phase of the civil rights leader’s life.”
Ms. Woo was honored for her narrative about the Crafts, “an enslaved couple who escaped Georgia in 1848, with the light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her servant.”
Finalists Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty
MEMOIR OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Quest for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
The committee called Ms. Rivera Garza’s work “a genre-bending account of the author’s 20-year-old sister,” who was murdered by a former boyfriend. It “blends memoir, feminist investigative journalism and poetic biography, stitched together with a determination born of loss,” the committee said.
Finalists “The Land of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight” by Andrew Leland; The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
poetry
“Tripas: Poems” by Brandon Som
Mr. Som’s work is “a collection that delves deeply into the complexities of the poet’s Mexican and Chinese heritage, highlights the dignity of his family’s working life, and creates community rather than conflict,” the committee wrote.
Finalists “To 2040” by Jorie Graham; “Information Desk: An Epic” by Robyn Schiff
GENERAL non-fiction
“A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” by Nathan Thrall
The committee honored Mr. Thrall for his “beautifully reported and intimate account of life under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, told through the portrait of a Palestinian father whose 5-year-old son dies in a fiery school bus accident as Israelis and Palestinians come together. “Rescue teams are delayed by safety regulations.”
Finalists “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of Congo Fuels Our Lives” by Siddharth Kara; Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
MUSIC
“Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)” by Tyshawn Sorey
Mr. Sorey’s saxophone concerto features “a wide range of textures, presented at a slow tempo, a beautiful tribute that is quiet and intense, valuing intimacy rather than spectacle,” the committee said.
Finalists “Paper Pianos” by Mary Kouyoumdjian; “Double concerto for Esperanza Spalding, Claire Chase and large orchestra” by Felipe Lara
Special quotes
Greg Tate
Writer and critic Greg Tate was honored posthumously for his influence in shaping public thought and language around hip-hop and street art. Credit…Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images
Writer and critic Greg Tate was honored posthumously for his influence in shaping public thought and language around hip-hop and street art. “His aesthetics, innovations and intellectual originality, particularly in his groundbreaking hip-hop criticism, continue to influence subsequent generations, particularly writers and critics of color,” the committee wrote.
Journalists and media professionals report on the war in Gaza
“Extraordinary numbers of journalists have died in appalling conditions trying to tell the stories of Palestinians and others in Gaza,” the committee wrote. “This war also claimed the lives of poets and writers among the victims. As the Pulitzer Prizes honor the categories of journalism, art and literature, we mark the loss of invaluable records of the human experience.”
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