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PUBLIC SERVICE
ProfessionalPublica
The Pulitzer committee honored ProfessionalPublica for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg, citing their “groundbreaking and bold reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court.”
Finalists KFF Health News and Cox Media Group; The Washington Post
BREAKING NEWS
Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz
Lookout Santa Cruz gained for “its detailed and nimble community-focused protection, over a vacation weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced hundreds of residents and destroyed greater than 1,000 properties and companies.”
Finalists Staff of Honolulu Civil Beat; Staff of The Los Angeles Times
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Hannah Dreier of The New York Times
Ms. Dreier was honored for “a deeply reported collection of tales revealing the beautiful attain of migrant baby labor throughout the United States — and the company and governmental failures that perpetuate it.”
Finalists Staff of Bloomberg; Casey Ross and Robert Herman of Stat
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker
Ms. Stillman’s work was a “searing indictment of our authorized system’s reliance on the felony homicide cost and its disparate penalties, usually devastating for communities of colour,” the committee mentioned.
Finalists Staff of Bloomberg; Staffs of The Texas Tribune, ProfessionalPublica and Frontline
LOCAL REPORTING
Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute
Ms. Conway and Ms. Reynolds-Tyler had been honored for “their investigative collection on lacking Black women and girls in Chicago that exposed how systemic racism and police division neglect contributed to the disaster.”
Finalists Jerry Mitchell, Ilyssa Daly, Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield of Mississippi Today and The New York Times; Staff of The Villages Daily Sun
NATIONAL REPORTING
Staff of Reuters and Staff of The Washington Post
This 12 months’s nationwide reporting class had two winners. The employees of Reuters gained for “an eye-opening collection of accountability tales” centered on the auto and aerospace companies helmed by the billionaire Elon Musk. The employees of The Washington Post gained for “its sobering examination of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.”
Finalists Bianca Vázquez Toness and Sharon Lurye of The Associated Press; Dave Philipps of The New York Times
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Staff of The New York Times
The New York Times gained for its “wide-ranging and revelatory protection of Hamas’ deadly assault in southern Israel on Oct. 7, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli army’s sweeping, lethal response in Gaza,” the committee mentioned.
Finalists Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios of The New York Times; Staff of The Washington Post
Feature writing
Katie Engelhart, contributing author, The New York Times
Ms. Engelhart was honored “for her fair-minded portrait of a household’s authorized and emotional struggles throughout a matriarch’s progressive dementia.” Her article “sensitively probes the thriller of an individual’s important self,” the committee mentioned.
Finalists Keri Blakinger of the Marshall Project, co-published with The New York Times Magazine; Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic
COMMENTARY
Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post
The committee highlighted Mr. Kara-Murza’s “passionate columns written at nice private danger from his jail cell, warning of the results of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his nation.”
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 movie criticism “displays on the modern moviegoing expertise,” the committee mentioned, praising it as “richly evocative and genre-spanning.”
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 collection on new applied sciences and the techniques authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent within the digital age and the way they are often fought.”
Finalists Isadora Rangel of The Miami Herald; Brandon McGinley and Rebecca Spiess of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker
Mr. de la Cruz was honored for “his visually pushed story set inside Rikers Island jail utilizing daring black-and-white photos that humanize the prisoners and employees by means of their starvation for books.”
Finalists Clay Bennett of The Chattanooga Times Free Press; Angie Wang, contributor, The New Yorker; Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca and Ren Galeno, contributor, of The Washington Post
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography Staff of Reuters
The pictures employees gained for “uncooked and pressing pictures documenting the Oct. 7 lethal assault in Israel by Hamas and the primary weeks of Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza.”
Finalists Adem Altan of Agence France-Presse; Nicole S. Hester of The Tennessean
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography Staff of The Associated Press
The journalists had been honored for “poignant pictures chronicling unprecedented lots of migrants and their arduous journey north from Colombia to the border of the United States.”
Finalists Nanna Heitmann, contributor, The New York Times; Hannah Reyes Morales, contributor, The New York Times
AUDIO REPORTING
Staffs of the Invisible Institute and USG Audio
The two newsrooms gained for a “highly effective collection that revisits a Chicago hate crime from the Nineties, a fluid amalgam of memoir, neighborhood historical past and journalism.”
Finalists Dan Slepian and Preeti Varathan, contributor, of NBC News; Lauren Chooljian, Alison Macadam, Jason Moon, Daniel Barrick and Katie Colaneri of New Hampshire Public Radio
FICTION
“Night Watch,” by Jayne Anne Phillips
Ms. Phillips gained for her “fantastically rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum within the aftermath of the Civil War the place a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old woman and her mom, lengthy abused by a Confederate soldier, battle 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 a “easy and elegantly crafted story of an emotionally broken man who finds a brand new job, new associates and a brand new sense of price, illustrating how small acts of kindness can change an individual’s life and enrich a complete neighborhood.”
Finalists “Here There Are Blueberries,” by Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich; “Public Obscenities,” by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
HISTORY
“No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers within the Civil War Era,” by Jacqueline Jones
Ms. Jones was awarded for her “authentic reconstruction of free Black life in Boston that profoundly reshapes our understanding of town’s abolitionist legacy and the difficult actuality for its Black residents.”
Finalists “Continental Reckoning: The American West within the Age of Expansion,” by Elliott West; “American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the U.S. Government on the Dawn of the Twentieth Century,” by Michael Willrich
Two awards got on this class. Mr. Eig was honored for “a revelatory portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. that attracts on new sources to counterpoint our understanding of every stage of the civil rights chief’s life.”
Ms. Woo was honored for her narrative of the Crafts, “an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant.”
Finalists “Larry McMurtry: A Life,” by Tracy Daugherty
MEMOIR OR AUTOBIOGRAPHy
“Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice,” by Cristina Rivera Garza
The committee referred to as Ms. Rivera Garza’s work “a genre-bending account of the writer’s 20-year-old sister,” who was murdered by a former boyfriend. It “mixes memoir, feminist investigative journalism and poetic biography stitched along with a dedication born of loss,” the committee mentioned.
Finalists “The Country of the Blind: A Memoir on 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 set that deeply engages with the complexities of the poet’s twin Mexican and Chinese heritage, highlighting the dignity of his household’s working lives, creating neighborhood reasonably than battle,” the committee wrote.
Finalists “To 2040,” by Jorie Graham; “Information Desk: An Epic,” by Robyn Schiff
GENERAL NONFICTION
“A Day within the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy,” by Nathan Thrall
The committee honored Mr. Thrall for his “finely reported and intimate account of life beneath Israeli occupation of the West Bank, informed by means of a portrait of a Palestinian father whose 5-year-old son dies in a fiery college bus crash when Israeli and Palestinian rescue groups are delayed by safety laws.”
Finalists “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers 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 has “a variety of textures introduced in a gradual tempo, a ravishing homage that’s quietly intense, treasuring intimacy reasonably than spectacle,” the committee mentioned.
Finalists “Paper Pianos,” by Mary Kouyoumdjian; “Double Concerto for esperanza spalding, Claire Chase and huge orchestra,” by Felipe Lara
Special citations
Greg Tate
The author and critic Greg Tate was honored posthumously for his affect in shaping public thought and language round hip-hop and avenue artwork. “His aesthetic, improvements and mental originality, significantly in his pioneering hip-hop criticism, proceed to affect subsequent generations, particularly writers and critics of colour,” the committee wrote.
Journalists and Media Workers Covering the War in Gaza
“Under horrific situations, a unprecedented variety of journalists have died within the effort to inform the tales of Palestinians and others in Gaza,” the committee wrote. “This warfare has additionally claimed the lives of poets and writers among the many casualties. As the Pulitzer Prizes honor classes of journalism, arts and letters, we mark the lack of invaluable information of the human expertise.”
