Pulitzer Prizes Winners

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Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of global migration to the U.S.

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📰 AP won a Pulitzer Prize for an investigation into mass surveillance tools and their impact in China, Reuters won for reporting on President Trump's expansion of executive power, and The Minnesota Star Tribune won for coverage of a shooting at a Catholic school. The Washington Post won for scrutinizing Trump administration cuts to federal agencies. And Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown received a special citation "for her groundbreaking reporting ... that exposed Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women." Links to winners ... Watch the announcement.

 

The 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday, honoring last year's distinguished work in journalism and the arts.

The Washington Post received the Gold Medal for Public Service for its coverage of the Trump administration's overhaul of federal agencies. Reuters won for documenting the expansion of executive power (national reporting); The New York Times for exposing conflicts of interest tied to the presidency (investigative reporting); and The Associated Press for its global probe into Silicon Valley-built surveillance tools now deployed by the US Border Patrol (international reporting).

Other winners include "Pablo Torre Finds Out" for its investigation into how the Los Angeles Clippers allegedly skirted the NBA's salary cap (audio reporting); Texas Monthly's Aaron Parsley for a first-person account of survival and loss after deadly Central Texas floods (feature writing); and Daniel Kraus for "Angel Down" (fiction). See the full list of winners.

The awards are named after Joseph Pulitzer, one of the founders of modern journalism, who left $2M to Columbia University upon his death in 1911 to establish its journalism school and the prize. Winners receive $15K.

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AP’s global investigation into government surveillance efforts wins Pulitzer Prize The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for an investigation into mass surveillance tools and their impact in China. Read more.

What to know: Spanning three years, thousands of pages of documents and numerous interviews, the AP project found that American tech companies helped lay the foundations of the Chinese government’s system for monitoring and policing its citizens. The Pulitzer board described the reporting as “an astonishing global investigation into state-of-the-art tools of mass surveillance.”   Several other prize-winning projects zoomed in on the Trump presidency. The Washington Post won the prize for public service for scrutinizing the Trump administration’s sweeping, choppy overhaul of federal agencies. Reuters won for national reporting on President Donald Trump’s use of power.

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