PUBLIC SERVICE
ProPublica
The Pulitzer committee honored ProPublica for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg, citing their “innovative and ambitious reporting that broke through the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court.”
Finalists KFF Health News and Cox Media Group; The Washington Post
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Santa Cruz Lookout Staff
Lookout Santa Cruz won for “its detailed and agile community coverage of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses over a holiday weekend.”
Finalists Honolulu Civil Beat Staff; Los Angeles Times Staff
INVESTIGATION REPORTS
Hannah Dreier of the New York Times
Ms. Dreier was honored for “a series of high-profile stories revealing the staggering scale of migrant child labor across the United States – and the failures of the corporations and governments that perpetuate it.”
Finalists Bloomberg Staff; Stat’s Casey Ross and Robert Herman
EXPLANATORY REPORT
Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker
Ms. Stillman’s work constitutes a “glaring indictment of our legal system’s reliance on the charge of murder and its disparate, often devastating consequences for communities of color,” the committee said.
Finalists Bloomberg Staff; Texas Tribune, ProPublica and Frontline Staff
LOCAL REPORTS
Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute
Ms. Conway and Ms. Reynolds-Tyler were honored for “their investigative series on missing black girls and women in Chicago, which revealed 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; Daily Sun Villages Staff
NATIONAL REPORTS
Reuters staff and Washington Post staff
This year’s national reporting category had two winners. The Reuters team won the award for “a series of eye-opening accountability stories” focused on the automotive and aerospace industries led by billionaire Elon Musk. The Washington Post staff won for “its sobering review of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.”
Finalists Bianca Vázquez Toness and Sharon Lurye of the Associated Press; Dave Phillips of the New York Times
INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
New York Times Staff
The New York Times won for its “extensive and revealing coverage of the deadly Hamas attack in southern Israel on October 7, the failures of Israeli intelligence services and the Israeli military’s radical and deadly response to Gaza,” the committee said.
Finalists Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios of the New York Times; Washington Post Staff
Writing features
Katie Engelhart, New York Times contributing editor
Ms. Engelhart was honored “for her even-handed portrayal of a family’s legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch’s progressive dementia.” His article “sensitively probes the mystery of a person’s essential self,” the committee said.
Finalists Keri Blakeger of The Marshall Project, co-published with the New York Times Magazine; Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic
COMMENT
Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post
The committee highlighted the “passionate columns written by Mr. Kara-Murza at the risk of his life from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country “.
Finalists Brian Lyman of the Alabama Reflector; Jay Caspian Kang of The New Yorker
CRITICAL
Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times
Mr. Chang’s film criticism “reflects the contemporary cinematic experience,” the committee said, calling it “richly evocative and spanning all genres.”
Finalists Zadie Smith, contributor, 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 tactics used by authoritarian regimes to suppress dissent in the digital age and how they can be combatted.”
Finalists Isadora Rangel of the Miami Herald; Brandon McGinley and Rebecca Spiess of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Illustrated reports and comments
Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker
Mr. de la Cruz was honored for “his visual story set in Rikers Island prison using bold black-and-white images that humanize prisoners and staff through their thirst for books.”
Finalists Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press; Angie Wang, contributor, The New Yorker; Washington Post contributors Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca and Ren Galeno
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Reuters photography staff
They won for “raw, urgent photographs documenting the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and the first weeks of Israel’s devastating attack on Gaza.”
Finalists Adem Altan of Agence France Presse; Nicole S. Hester of The Tennessean
BACKGROUND PHOTOGRAPHY
Associated Press Photographic Staff
The journalists were honored for “poignant photographs chronicling unprecedented masses of migrants and their arduous journey from northern Colombia to the United States border.”
Finalists Nanna Heitmann, New York Times contributor; Hannah Reyes Morales, contributor, The New York Times
AUDIO REPORTS
Invisible Institute and USG Audio Staff
The two editors won for a “powerful series that revisits a hate crime in 1990s Chicago, a fluid amalgam of memoir, community history and journalism.”
Finalists NBC News contributor Dan Slepian and Preeti Varathan; New Hampshire Public Radio’s Lauren Chooljian, Alison Macadam, Jason Moon, Daniel Barrick and Katie Colaneri
FICTION
“Night Watch,” by Jayne Anne Phillips
Ms. Phillips won for her “beautifully rendered novel set in the lunatic Trans-Allegheny Asylum in West Virginia in the aftermath of the Civil War, where a badly wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long mistreated by a Confederate soldier. , fight to heal.
Finalists “Wednesday’s Child,” by Yiyun Li; “Same Bed, Different Dreams,” by Ed Park
DRAMA
“Primary Trust,” by Eboni Booth
The committee described Ms. Booth’s play “Primary Trust” as “the simple, elegant story of an emotionally damaged man who finds a new job, new friends and a new sense of worth, illustrating how small acts of kindness can change a person’s life. and enrich an entire community.
Finalists “Here There Are Blueberries,” by Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich; “Public Obscenities,” by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
HISTORY
“No Right to an Honest Life: The Struggles of Black Workers in Civil War-Era Boston,” by Jacqueline Jones
Ms. Jones was recognized for her “original reconstruction of free black life in Boston, which profoundly reshapes our understanding of the city’s abolitionist legacy and the difficult reality 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 American Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century,” by Michael Willrich
Two prizes were awarded in this category. Mr. Eig was honored for “an eye-opening portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. that draws on new sources to enrich our understanding of every stage of the civil rights leader’s life.”
Ms. Woo was honored for her account of the Crafts, “a slave couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her servant.”
Finalists “Larry McMurtry: A Life,” by Tracy Daugherty
MEMORY 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 groundbreaking 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
Mr. Som’s work is “a collection that deeply addresses the complexities of the poet’s dual Mexican and Chinese heritage, emphasizing the dignity of his family’s professional life, creating community rather than conflict,” the committee wrote .
Finalists “Until 2040,” by Jorie Graham; “Information Bureau: An Epic,” by Robyn Schiff
GENERAL NON-FICTION
“A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy,” by Nathan Thrall
Mr. Thrall was honored for his “intimate and finely reported account of life under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, told through the portrait of a Palestinian father whose five-year-old son dies in a violent bus crash school when Israeli and Palestinian relief teams are delayed by security regulations.
Finalists “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Fuels Our Lives,” by Siddharth Kara; “Fire Weather: A True Story of a Warmer 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 in a slow tempo, a beautiful tribute that is gently intense, cherishing 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
THE writer and critic Greg Tate was honored posthumously for his influence on public thought and language around hip-hop and street art. “His aesthetics, innovations, and intellectual originality, particularly in his pioneering critique of hip-hop, continue to influence subsequent generations, particularly writers and critics of color,” the committee wrote.
Journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza
“Under horrific conditions, an extraordinary number of journalists have died striving to tell the stories of Palestinians and others in Gaza,” the committee wrote. “This war also cost the lives of poets and writers. As the Pulitzer Prizes honor the categories of journalism, arts and letters, we mark the loss of invaluable records of the human experience.
