Pulitzer Prizes 2020: Anchorage Daily News, ProPublica win award for investigation on sexual violence
The public service class is usually thought-about probably the most prestigious of the journalism Pulitzer Prizes.
The New York Times received three awards on Monday, together with one for commentary that went to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay on The 1619 Project, a sequence that reexamined the historical past of slavery in America.
Other awards went to The New Yorker, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. The Baltimore Sun, The Seattle Times and the Palestine Herald-Press in Texas are among the many native newspapers that received prizes on Monday. A podcast from This American Life, with reporting by Molly O’Toole of the Los Angeles Times and Emily Green of Vice News, took residence the primary ever prize for audio reporting.
These information organizations received their Pulitzers for reporting on numerous points together with election interference, local weather change, political corruption and authorities oppression.
“During this season of unprecedented uncertainty, one thing we know for sure is that journalism never stops, much like our courageous first responders and health care workers, journalists are running toward the fire,” Canedy mentioned on the printed. “Despite relentless assaults on objective truth, coordinated efforts to undermine our nation’s free press and persistent economic headwinds, journalists continue to pursue and deliver essential facts and truths to keep us safe and to protect our democracy.”
PUBLIC SERVICE
Anchorage Daily News in collaboration with ProPublica
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
Staff of The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Brian M. Rosenthal of The New York Times
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Staff of The Washington Post
LOCAL REPORTING
Staff of The Baltimore Sun
NATIONAL REPORTING
T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi of ProPublica
Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Staff of The New York Times
FEATURE WRITING
Ben Taub of The New Yorker
COMMENTARY
Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times
CRITICISM
Christopher Knight of Los Angeles Times
EDITORIAL WRITING
Jeffery Gerritt of the Palestine Herald Press in Palestine, Texas
EDITORIAL CARTOONING
Barry Blitt, contributor of The New Yorker
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography Staff of Reuters
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of Associated Press
AUDIO REPORTING
Staff of This American Life with Molly O’Toole of the Los Angeles Times and Emily Green of Vice News for “The Out Crowd”
