Workers | The Pulitzer Prizes
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners in Journalism are:
Journalism
Public Service
For a distinguished instance of meritorious public service by a newspaper, journal or information website by way of the usage of its journalistic sources, together with the usage of tales, editorials, cartoons, pictures, graphics, movies, databases, multimedia or interactive displays or different visible materials, a gold medal.
Awarded to ProPublica for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg, groundbreaking and bold reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Courtroom to disclose how a small group of politically influential billionaires wooed justices with lavish items and journey, pushing the Courtroom to undertake its first code of conduct.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: KFF Well being Information and Cox Media Group for uncovering tens of millions of circumstances wherein the Social Safety Administration overpaid beneficiaries, then demanded rapid reimbursement — imposing money owed on aged and disabled individuals who had already spent the funds; and The Washington Put up for its sobering examination of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which compelled readers to reckon with the horrors wrought by the weapon usually used for mass shootings in America.
Breaking Information Reporting
For a distinguished instance of native, state or nationwide reporting of breaking information that, as shortly as doable, captures occasions precisely as they happen, and, as time passes, illuminates, gives context and expands upon the preliminary protection. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to the Workers of Lookout Santa Cruz, California, for its detailed and nimble community-focused protection, over a vacation weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced 1000’s of residents and destroyed greater than 1,000 properties and companies.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Workers of the Honolulu Civil Beat for its distinctive, sweeping and pressing protection of the Maui wildfires that killed greater than 100 folks and left a historic city in ruins, reporting that held officers to account and chronicled the aftermath and efforts to rebuild (Moved by the jury from the Native Reporting class.); and Workers of the Los Angeles Occasions for pressing and considerate protection of a Lunar New Yr in a single day capturing that left 11 senior residents lifeless, demonstrating clear data of and dedication to the native Asian communities.
Investigative Reporting
For a distinguished instance of investigative reporting, utilizing any obtainable journalistic instrument. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to Hannah Dreier of The New York Occasions for a deeply reported sequence of tales revealing the beautiful attain of migrant little one labor throughout the US — and the company and governmental failures that perpetuate it.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Workers of Bloomberg for a deep and rigorous investigation of how the US authorities aided the worldwide unfold of gun violence, prompting the Biden administration to halt most gun exports for 90 days whereas it reviewed the federal authorities’s advertising relationship with gun producers; and Casey Ross and Bob Herman of STAT for exposing how United Well being Group, the nation’s largest well being insurer, used an unregulated algorithm to override clinicians’ judgments and deny care, highlighting the risks of AI use in medication.
Explanatory Reporting
For a distinguished instance of explanatory reporting that illuminates a major and sophisticated topic, demonstrating mastery of the topic, lucid writing and clear presentation, utilizing any obtainable journalistic instrument. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker for a searing indictment of our authorized system’s reliance on the felony homicide cost and its disparate penalties, usually devastating for communities of coloration.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Workers of Bloomberg for rigorous, far-reaching reporting that holds company water profiteers to account and exposes how they willfully exacerbate the consequences of local weather change on the expense of much less highly effective communities; and Staffs of The Texas Tribune, ProPublica, and FRONTLINE for advancing understanding of regulation enforcement’s catastrophic response to the mass capturing at a Uvalde, Texas elementary faculty and likewise for documenting the political and coverage shortcomings which have led to related lethal police failures throughout the nation.
Native Reporting
For a distinguished instance of protection of serious problems with native or statewide concern,
demonstrating originality and group connection, utilizing any obtainable journalistic instrument. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to Sarah Conway of Metropolis Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute for his or her investigative sequence on lacking Black women and girls in Chicago that exposed how systemic racism and police division neglect contributed to the disaster.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Jerry Mitchell, Ilyssa Daly, Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield of Mississippi In the present day and The New York Occasions for his or her detailed examination of corruption and abuse, together with the torturing of suspects, by Mississippi sheriffs and their officers over 20 years; and Workers of The Villages Each day Solar for its complete investigation and moment-by-moment account of Florida officers’ inaction earlier than, throughout and after Hurricane Ian, the deadliest storm to strike the state since 1935.
Nationwide Reporting
For a distinguished instance of reporting on nationwide affairs, utilizing any obtainable journalistic instrument. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Two Prizes of $15,000 every:
Awarded to the Workers of Reuters for an eye-opening sequence of accountability tales targeted on Elon Musk’s vehicle and aerospace companies, tales that displayed exceptional breadth and depth and provoked official probes of his corporations’ practices in Europe and the US.
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Awarded to the workers of The Washington Put up for its sobering examination of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which compelled readers to reckon with the horrors wrought by the weapon usually used for mass shootings in America. (Moved by the Board from the Public Service class, the place it additionally was entered and nominated.)
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Bianca Vázquez Toness and Sharon Lurye of the Related Press for a deeply reported sequence on the corrosive impact of the pandemic on public training, highlighting the staggering variety of college students lacking from lecture rooms throughout America; and Dave Philipps of The New York Occasions for groundbreaking reporting that uncovered a sample of traumatic mind accidents amongst U.S. troops from blast exposures attributable to the weapons they had been firing.
Worldwide Reporting
For a distinguished instance of reporting on worldwide affairs, utilizing any obtainable journalistic instrument. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to the Workers of The New York Occasions for its wide-ranging and revelatory protection of Hamas’ deadly assault in southern Israel on October 7, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli army’s sweeping, lethal response in Gaza.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios of The New York Occasions for his or her immersive and bold protection of “migration purgatory” within the Darien Hole between Colombia and Panama; and Workers of The Washington Put up for a sweeping on-the-ground investigation in India that uncovered the methodical undermining of the world’s largest democracy by Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist allies, who’ve deployed social media to foment hate and stress American tech giants to bend to authorities energy.
Function Writing
For distinguished function writing giving prime consideration to high quality of writing, originality and concision, utilizing any obtainable journalistic instrument. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to Katie Engelhart, contributing author, The New York Occasions, for her fair-minded portrait of a household’s authorized and emotional struggles throughout a matriarch’s progressive dementia that sensitively probes the thriller of an individual’s important self.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Mission, co-published with The New York Occasions Journal, for her insightful, humane portrait, reported with nice issue, of males on Dying Row in Texas who play clandestine video games of “Dungeons & Dragons,” countering their excessive isolation with elaborate fantasy; and Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic for her exquisitely rendered account of her disabled aunt, who was institutionalized as a small little one, and the lasting results on her household, instructed within the context of present-day care and intervention that make totally different outcomes doable.
Commentary
For distinguished commentary, utilizing any obtainable journalistic instrument. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Put up, for passionate columns written at nice private threat from his jail cell, warning of the results of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his nation.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Brian Lyman of the Alabama Reflector for incisive columns that problem a spread of state insurance policies flouting democratic norms and concentrating on susceptible populations, written with the commanding authority of a veteran political observer; and Jay Caspian Kang of The New Yorker for provocative columns that urge us to reexamine standard narratives on such important matters as affirmative motion, racial politics and the portrayal of gun violence.
Criticism
For distinguished criticism, utilizing any obtainable journalistic instrument. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Occasions for richly evocative and genre-spanning movie criticism that displays on the modern moviegoing expertise.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Zadie Smith, contributor, The New York Overview of Books for a assessment of the movie “Tár” that addressed with wit and ease such consequential themes as mortality and the conflict of generations; and Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker for theater opinions that mirror a formidable data of the stage and the mechanics of efficiency together with canny observations on the human situation.
Editorial Writing
For distinguished editorial writing, the check of excellence being clearness of favor, ethical function, sound reasoning, and energy to affect public opinion in what the author conceives to be the best course, utilizing any obtainable journalistic instrument. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to David E. Hoffman of The Washington Put up for a compelling and well-researched sequence on new applied sciences and the techniques authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent within the digital age, and the way they are often fought.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Isadora Rangel of the Miami Herald for a scathing sequence that roots town’s a number of political scandals in a troubled native democracy and champions electoral reforms; and Brandon McGinley and Rebecca Spiess of the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette for bold, investigative editorials that study a collapse in providers for the homeless in Pittsburgh, and town’s failure to account for tens of millions of {dollars} meant to supply aid.
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
For a distinguished portfolio of editorial cartoons or different illustrated work (nonetheless, animated, or each) characterised by political perception, editorial effectiveness, or public service worth. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker for his visually-driven story set inside Rikers Island jail utilizing daring black-and-white photos that humanize the prisoners and workers by way of their starvation for books.
Nominated as finalists on this class had been: Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Occasions Free Press for a portfolio of deceptively light, largely wordless cartoons filled with juxtapositions that ably talk complicated, subtle messages; Angie Wang, contributor, The New Yorker for a vivid illustrated journey together with her toddler that explains how human language studying can by no means be supplanted by AI.; and Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca and Ren Galeno, contributor, of The Washington Put up for masterful and delicate use of the comedian kind to disclose the story of an awesome injustice to a gaggle of Filipinos exhibited on the 1904 World’s Truthful in St. Louis, the place a few of them died.
Breaking Information Pictures
For a distinguished instance of breaking information pictures, which can be a single {photograph} or sequence of pictures of an occasion that happens with no advance discover and requires spontaneous protection within the second. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to the Pictures Workers of Reuters for uncooked and pressing pictures documenting the October seventh lethal assault in Israel by Hamas and the primary weeks of Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Adem Altan of Agence France Presse for a heartbreaking picture of a person clutching the hand of his deceased daughter a day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed greater than 50,000 folks in Turkey and Syria; and Nicole S. Hester of The Tennessean for a distressing picture of a younger woman looking of a faculty bus in anguish as she is evacuated from the scene of a lethal capturing at The Covenant College in Nashville.
Function Pictures
For a distinguished instance of function pictures, which can be a single {photograph} or sequence of pictures of common information which may be taken over time and that illuminate a topic in nice depth. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to the Pictures Workers of The Related Press for poignant pictures chronicling unprecedented lots of migrants and their arduous journey north from Colombia to the border of the US.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Nanna Heitmann, contributor, The New York Occasions for illuminating pictures portraying a era dwelling underneath President Vladimir Putin’s resurgent nationalism whereas Russia is at conflict in Ukraine; and Hannah Reyes Morales, contributor, The New York Occasions for a artistic sequence of pictures documenting a “youthquake” occurring in Africa the place, by 2050, the continent will account for one-quarter of the world’s inhabitants and one-third of its younger folks.
Audio Reporting
For a distinguished instance of audio journalism that serves the general public curiosity, characterised by revelatory reporting and illuminating storytelling. Fifteen thousand {dollars} ($15,000).
Awarded to the Staffs of the Invisible Institute, Chicago, and USG Audio, California, for a robust sequence that revisits a Chicago hate crime from the Nineties, a fluid amalgam of memoir, group historical past and journalism.
Additionally nominated as finalists on this class had been: Dan Slepian and Preeti Varathan, contributor, of NBC Information for his or her relentless 20-year investigation that resulted in a wrongfully-convicted man lastly receiving clemency; and Lauren Chooljian, Alison Macadam, Jason Moon, Daniel Barrick and Katie Colaneri of New Hampshire Public Radio for his or her gripping and extensively reported investigation of corruption and sexual abuse inside the profitable restoration business that sought accountability regardless of authorized stress.
Particular Citations
The Pulitzer Board awarded a particular quotation for the late author and critic Greg Tate, whose language — cribbed from literature, academia, standard tradition and hip-hop — was as influential because the content material of his concepts. His aesthetic, improvements and mental originality, notably in his pioneering hip-hop criticism, proceed to affect subsequent generations, particularly writers and critics of coloration.
Lately the Pulitzer Board has issued citations honoring journalists overlaying wars in Ukraine and Afghanistan. “This 12 months, the Board acknowledges the brave work of journalists and media employees overlaying the conflict in Gaza. Underneath horrific circumstances, a rare variety of journalists have died within the effort to inform the tales of Palestinians and others in Gaza. This conflict has additionally claimed the lives of poets and writers among the many casualties. Because the Pulitzer Prizes honor classes of journalism, arts and letters, we mark the lack of invaluable data of the human expertise.”
