08 May 2023 22:29
Awards for best journalism announced Monday: Among the winning stories Mariupol Siege and Aftermath of the Abortion Judgment
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The besieged city of Mariupol and the Ukrainian invasion with the dead in Bucha, analyzed the impact of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade judgment (landmark of US abortion jurisprudence) on daily life, people’s lives during the pandemic and social problems through a “cultural lens”. These are some of the journalistic works that have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, the winners of which were announced on Monday.
Here in detail who the winners are and the reasons.
PUBLIC SERVICE Mstyslav Chernov, Lori Hinnant, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko, The Associated Press. The AP reporter quartet won for their “courageous reporting” from the besieged city of Mariupol on the massacre of civilians during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
LATEST NEWS The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times staffers released a secretly taped conversation between city officials that contained racist comments, and the story was followed by extensive coverage of the aftermath.
INVESTIGATION The Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal’s “Capital Assets” series analyzed the investments of approximately 12,000 federal employees and their families between 2016 and 2021. The WSJ collected and analyzed data on approximately 850,000 financial assets and more than 315,000 transactions. This was a personal reward.
EXPLANATORY REPORT Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic. Caitlin Dickerson conducted more than 150 interviews as part of an 18-month investigation into former President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on separating children at the border.
LOCAL NEWS John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald and Challen Stephens, AL.com; Anna Wolfe, Mississippi today. AL.com journalists won with a series of reports exposing how police forces in the town of Brookside were exploiting residents to increase their income. Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe’s series “The Backchannel” detailed how state officials misspent millions of welfare dollars intended to help some of the poorest people in the United States. Wolfe uncovered evidence that former Gov. Phil Bryant and NFL legend Brett Favre worked together to use at least $5 million in federal welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi, where the daughter of Favre practiced the sport.
NATIONAL NEWS Caroline Kitchener, The Washington Post. Caroline Kitchener has written about the aftermath of life after the 1973 Roe vs. Wade verdict.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS The New York Times. The New York Times contributor won for reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including an investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the city of Bucha.
CHARACTERISTIC ARTICLES Eli Saslow, The Washington Post Eli Saslow won for “evocative individual narratives” about people struggling with the pandemic, homelessness, addiction and inequality in the United States. Saslow has since left the Post, joining the New York Times in February.
LATEST NEWS PHOTOS The Associated Press. A team of AP photographers won the Pulitzer for “unique and urgent” images from the first weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
PHOTO SHOOTING Christina House, Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times’ Christina House won for “an intimate look” into the life of a 22-year-old pregnant woman living in a tent on the street.
COMMENT Kyle Whitmire, AL.com. Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham, won for “measured and persuasive words” documenting how Alabama’s Confederate heritage still endures.
CRITICISM Andrea Long Chu, New Yorker Magazine. New York magazine’s Andrea Long Chu won for book reviews that use “multiple cultural lenses” to examine social issues.
EDITORIAL Nancy Ancrum, Amy Driscoll, Luisa Yanez, Isadora Rangel, and Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald. Reporters for the Miami Herald won a series of op-eds on Florida officials’ failure to provide long-promised taxpayer-funded services and amenities to residents.
ILLUSTRATIONS Mona Chalabi, The New York Times. New York Times contributor Mona Chalabi won for illustrations that combine statistical reporting with analysis to help readers understand the immense wealth and economic power of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
AUDIO JOURNALISM Gimlet Media, especially Connie Walker. The award went to Gimlet Media employees, particularly Connie Walker, whose investigation into her father’s troubled past uncovered a broader story of the abuse of hundreds of Indigenous children at a boarding school in Canada.
Here are the Pulitzer Prize winners for the arts.
FICTION Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead”; “Trust” by Hernan Diaz
THEATRE “English” by Sanaz Toossi
GENERAL NON-RECOGNITION His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Fight for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
BIOGRAPHY “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century” by Beverly Gage
MEMOIR OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY “Stay True” by Hua Hsu
POETRY “Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020” by Carl Phillips
MUSIC “Omar” by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abel
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