PUBLIC SERVICE
ProPublica
The Pulitzer committee honored ProPublica for the work of Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz for what it called “urgent reporting about pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgently needed care for fear of violating vague ‘life of the mother’ exceptions in states with strict abortion laws.”
Finalists The Boston Globe; The New York Times
BREAKING NEWS
Staff of The Washington Post
The Washington Post won for its “illuminating coverage of the July 13 attempt to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump,” the committee said.
Finalists Staff of The Associated Press; Staffs of The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Staff of Reuters
The staff of Reuters won for its “boldly reported exposé of lax regulation in the U.S. and abroad that makes fentanyl, one of the world’s deadliest drugs, inexpensive and widely available to users in the United States.”
Finalists Staffs of The Associated Press and “Frontline”; Christopher Weaver, Anna Wilde Mathews, Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty and Andrew Mollica of The Wall Street Journal
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Azam Ahmed and Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times and Matthieu Aikins, contributing writer
The Pulitzer committee honored Mr. Ahmed, Ms. Goldbaum and Mr. Aikins for “an authoritative examination of how the United States sowed the seeds of its own failure in Afghanistan, primarily by supporting murderous militia that drove civilians to the Taliban.”
Finalists Alexia Campbell, April Simpson and Pratheek Rebala of The Center for Public Integrity, Nadia Hamdan of Reveal and Roy Hurst, contributor for Mother Jones; Annie Waldman, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau and Maya Miller of ProPublica
LOCAL REPORTING
Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times
Ms. Zhu, Mr. Thieme and Ms. Gallagher won for a “compassionate investigative series that captured the breathtaking dimensions of Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men,” the committee said.
Finalists Mike Reicher, Lynda Mapes and Fiona Martin of The Seattle Times; Katey Rusch and Casey Smith, contributors, The San Francisco Chronicle, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program
NATIONAL REPORTING
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
The Pulitzer committee honored The Wall Street Journal for “chronicling political and personal shifts of the richest person in the world, Elon Musk.”
Finalists Jennifer Gollan and Susie Neilson of The San Francisco Chronicle; Staff of The Washington Post
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Declan Walsh and the Staff of The New York Times
Mr. Walsh and the staff of The New York Times were honored for their “revelatory investigation of the conflict in Sudan, including reporting on foreign influence and the lucrative gold trade fueling it, and chilling forensic accounts of the Sudanese forces responsible for atrocities and famine,” the committee said.
Finalists Staff of The Wall Street Journal, notably the imprisoned journalist Evan Gershkovich and his colleagues; Staff of The Washington Post
Feature writing
Mark Warren, contributor, Esquire
The Pulitzer committee honored Mr. Warren for “a sensitive portrait of a Baptist pastor and small town mayor who died by suicide after his secret digital life was exposed by a right-wing news site.”
Finalists Joe Sexton, contributor, the Marshall Project; Anand Gopal, contributing writer, The New Yorker
COMMENTARY
Mosab Abu Toha, contributor, The New Yorker
Mr. Abu Toha was honored for “essays on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel,” the committee said.
Finalists Gustavo Arellano of The Los Angeles Times; Jerry Brewer of The Washington Post
CRITICISM
Alexandra Lange, contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab
The committee highlighted Ms. Lange’s “graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.”
Finalists Sara Holdren of New York Magazine; Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker
EDITORIAL WRITING
Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz of The Houston Chronicle
Mr. Mankad, Ms. Steinmann, Ms. Falkenberg and Ms. Binkovitz won for “a powerful series on dangerous train crossings that kept a rigorous focus on the people and communities at risk as the newspaper demanded urgent action,” the committee said.
Finalists David Scharfenberg, Alan Wirzbicki and Marcela García of The Boston Globe; Opinion Staff of The New York Times, notably W.J. Hennigan and Kathleen Kingsbury
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post
Ms. Telnaes won for “delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity — and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years.”
Finalists Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson, contributors, The Boston Globe; Iran Martinez, Steve Breen, Jamie Self and Giovanni Moujaes of inewsource
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Doug Mills of The New York Times
The Pulitzer committee honored Mr. Mills for “a sequence of photos of the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, including one image that captures a bullet whizzing through the air as he speaks.”
Finalists Photography Staff of Agence France-Presse; Nanna Heitmann, contributor, Tyler Hicks, David Guttenfelder and Nicole Tung, contributor, of The New York Times
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Moises Saman, contributor, The New Yorker
Mr. Saman was honored for “his haunting black and white images of Sednaya prison in Syria that capture the traumatic legacy of Assad’s torture chambers, forcing viewers to confront the raw horrors faced by prisoners and contemplate the scars on society,” the committee said.
Finalists Photography Staff of The Associated Press; Lynsey Addario, contributor, The New York Times
AUDIO REPORTING
Staff of The New Yorker
The New Yorker won for its “In the Dark” podcast, which the committee called “a combination of compelling storytelling and relentless reporting in the face of obstacles from the U.S. military.” It centers on the murder of unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha.
Finalists Staffs of WNYC and Gothamist; Dan Taberski, Henry Molofsky, Morgan Jones and Marshall Lewy of Wondery and Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios
FICTION
“James,” by Percival Everett
Mr. Everett’s book won for “an accomplished reconsideration of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ that gives agency to Jim to illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy and provide a new take on the search for family and freedom,” the committee said.
Finalists “Headshot: A Novel,” by Rita Bullwinkel; “The Unicorn Woman,” by Gayl Jones; “Mice 1961,” by Stacey Levine
DRAMA
“Purpose,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
The committee called Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins’s play “a skillful blend of drama and comedy that probes how different generations define heritage.”
Finalists “Oh, Mary!,” by Cole Escola; “The Ally,” by Itamar Moses
HISTORY
“Native Nations: A Millennium in North America,” by Kathleen DuVal, and “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,” by Edda L. Fields-Black
This year’s history category had two winners. Ms. DuVal was honored for “a vivid and accessible account” of Native American nations and communities over a thousand years, the committee said. Ms. Fields-Black won for “a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion.”
Finalists “Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery,” by Seth Rockman
biography
“Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life,” by Jason Roberts
The committee called Mr. Roberts’s book “a beautifully written double biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon.”
Finalists “John Lewis: A Life,” by David Greenberg; “The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker” by Amy Reading
MEMOIR OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
“Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir,” by Tessa Hulls
The Pulitzer committee honored Ms. Hulls’s graphic memoir, describing it as “an affecting work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women.”
Finalists “Fi: A Memoir of My Son,” by Alexandra Fuller; “I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition,” by Lucy Sante
poetry
“New and Selected Poems,” by Marie Howe
The committee highlighted a collection of Ms. Howe’s “drawn from decades of work that mines the quotidian modern experience for evidence of our shared loneliness, mortality and holiness.”
Finalists “An Authentic Life,” by Jennifer Chang; “Bluff: Poems,” by Danez Smith
GENERAL NONFICTION
“To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement,” by Benjamin Nathans
Mr. Nathans’s book won for its “prodigiously researched and revealing history of Soviet dissent,” the Pulitzer committee said.
Finalists “Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala,” by Rachel Nolan; and “I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India,” by Rollo Romig.
MUSIC
“Sky Islands,” by Susie Ibarra
A composer and percussionist, Ms. Ibarra was honored for her musical tribute to ecosystems and biodiversity. The committee wrote that the artist’s work “challenges the notion of the compositional voice by interweaving the profound musicianship and improvisatory skills of a soloist as a creative tool.”
Finalists “The Comet,” by George Lewis, libretto by Douglas Kearney; and “Jim is Still Crowing,” by Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson.
Special citations
Chuck Stone
Mr. Stone, a journalist, was honored posthumously for his “groundbreaking work” covering the civil rights movement as the first Black columnist for The Philadelphia Daily News, in addition to his role as co-founder of the National Association of Black Journalists.
