The New York Times received the Pulitzer Prize Monday for its investigative journalism and cultural criticism, while the Washington Post won for its comprehensive coverage of the Jan. 6 uprising in the U.S. Capitol.
The Times won the award in the international category for a detailed report on the failures of the US Air War in the Middle East, including the tragic casualties of civilians.
An investigation into the deadly stops of police traffic around the United States by The Times has been recognized as national reporting.
Salamishah Tillet, a public critic for The Times, won the category of criticism for her writing about race in the arts and culture.
The Washington Post won the public service category, considered the most prestigious of the awards, for The Attack, an extensive chronological study of what led to the siege of the Capitol building, what happened during and after the uprising. . The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University for excellence in journalism, books, music and drama.
Miami Herald staff won for breaking news coverage of the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, which killed nearly 100 people.
Corey J. Johnson, Rebecca Wollington and Ellie Murray of The Tampa Bay Times received the Poison Investigative Report, which revealed the dangers of lead smelting in Tampa, Florida, and the serious consequences it had on workers.
Madison Hopkins of the Association for Better Government, a Chicago-based nonprofit, and Cecilia Reyes of the Chicago Tribune won for local reporting after their long-running reporting project revealed that Chicago employees had been warned about building safety issues. where tenants were killed by fires.
Staff at Quanta Magazine, a science and mathematics publication, including reporter Natalie Walchover, received the Explanatory Report for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Jennifer Sr. of The Atlantic won the film award for her article on a family struggling with loss in the 1920s after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“These are challenging and dangerous days for journalists around the world,” Pulitzer Prize co-chair John Danishevsky said in a live broadcast Monday, quoting 12 journalists killed in the war against Ukraine and eight Mexican journalists. who were killed this year.
He said the threat to independent journalism means “it is essential that journalists at all levels continue to do the difficult and sometimes courageous work of presenting to the public true and candid stories on corruption from freedom of expression to civil rights.” to the degradation of the environment in order to suppress women’s freedoms and threaten disadvantaged people of all kinds. “
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