Saturday, April 27, 2019

2019 Pulitzer Prizes announced


The 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners in 14 journalism and seven letters, drama and music categories were announced on April 15. 
The winners in journalism are the South Florida Sun Sentinel for Public Service; the staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for Breaking News Reporting; Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times for Investigative Reporting; David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times for Explanatory Reporting; staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Local Reporting; staff of The Wall Street Journal for National Reporting; Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty of Associated Press for International Reporting; staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for International Reporting; Hannah Dreier of ProPublica for Feature Writing; Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Commentary; Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post for Criticism; Brent Staples of The New York Times for Editorial Writing; Darrin Bell, freelancer, for Editorial Cartooning; photography staff of Reuters for Breaking News Photography; and Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post for Feature Photography.
A special citation was also given to honor the journalists, staff and editorial board of the Capital Gazette, of Annapolis, Maryland, for their courageous response to the largest killing of journalists in U.S. history in their newsroom on June 28, 2018.

No comments: