On May 6, Columbia University announced the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes, honoring excellence in journalism, literature, drama, and music. These prestigious awards recognize American achievements and were presented this year amidst campus protests concerning the Gaza War.
Against a backdrop of heightened tensions, the 108th Pulitzer Prizes highlighted American achievements. The Pulitzer Board acknowledged the bravery of student journalists covering these protests.
Last year, twenty-three prizes were awarded, with most recipients receiving a cash prize of $15,000 and the news organization winning the Public Service Prize receiving a gold medal. This year twenty-four prizes were given. Here바카라s the complete list of winners:
Journalism
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Public Service
Winner: ProPublica
For 바카라groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court바카라 Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg.
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Breaking News
Winner: Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz
For 바카라its detailed and nimble community-focused coverage, over a holiday weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Investigative Reporting
Winner: Hannah Dreier of The New York Times
For 바카라a deeply reported series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States 바카라 and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Explanatory Reporting
Winner: Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker
Her work, as described by the committee, was a 바카라searing indictment of our legal system바카라s reliance on the felony murder charge and its disparate consequences, often devastating for communities of color.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Local Reporting
Winners: Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute
For 바카라their investigative series on missing Black girls and women in Chicago that revealed how systemic racism and police department neglect contributed to the crisis.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For National Reporting
Winners: Staff of Reuters and Staff of The Washington Post
The staff of Reuters for 바카라an eye-opening series of accountability stories바카라 focused on the automobile and aerospace businesses helmed by the billionaire Elon Musk.
The staff of The Washington Post for 바카라its sobering examination of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For International Reporting
Winner: Staff of The New York Times
For its 바카라wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas바카라 lethal attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, Israel바카라s intelligence failures and the Israeli military바카라s sweeping, deadly response in Gaza.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Feature Writing
Winner: Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times
For 바카라her fair-minded portrait of a family바카라s legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch바카라s progressive dementia.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Commentary
Winner: Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post
For 바카라passionate columns written at great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin바카라s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Criticism
Winner: Justin Chang of The Los Angeles Times
The committee said that his film criticism 바카라reflects on the contemporary movie-going experience,바카라 praising it as 바카라richly evocative and genre-spanning.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Editorial Writing
Winner: David E. Hoffman of The Washington Post
For 바카라compelling and well-researched series on new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent in the digital age and how they can be fought.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Illustrated Reporting And Commentary
Winner: Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker
For 바카라his visually driven story set inside Rikers Island jail using bold black-and-white images that humanize the prisoners and staff through their hunger for books.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Breaking News Photography
Winner: Photography staff of Reuters
For 바카라raw and urgent photographs documenting the Oct. 7 deadly attack in Israel by Hamas and the first weeks of Israel바카라s devastating assault on Gaza.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Feature Photography
Winner: Photography Staff of The Associated Press
For 바카라poignant photographs chronicling unprecedented masses of migrants and their arduous journey north from Colombia to the border of the United States.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Audio Reporting
Winner: Staffs of the Invisible Institute and USG Audio
For a 바카라powerful series that revisits a Chicago hate crime from the 1990s, a fluid amalgam of memoir, community history and journalism.바카라
Books, Drama and Music
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Fiction
Winner: 바카라Night Watch바카라, by Jayne Anne Phillips
For her 바카라beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia바카라s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Drama
Winner: 바카라Primary Trust,바카라 by Eboni Booth
The committee described her play as 바카라a simple and elegantly crafted story of an emotionally damaged man who finds a new job, new friends and a new sense of worth, illustrating how small acts of kindness can change a person바카라s life and enrich an entire community.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For History
Winner: 바카라No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston바카라s Black Workers in the Civil War Era,바카라 by Jacqueline Jones
For her 바카라original reconstruction of free Black life in Boston that profoundly reshapes our understanding of the city바카라s abolitionist legacy and the challenging reality for its Black residents.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Biography
Winners: 바카라King: A Life바카라 by Jonathan Eig, and 바카라Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom,바카라 by Ilyon Woo
Jonathan Eig was won the prize for 바카라a revelatory portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. that draws on new sources to enrich our understanding of each stage of the civil rights leader바카라s life.바카라
Ilyon Woo won for her narrative of the Crafts, 바카라an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Memoir Or Autobiography
Winner: 바카라Liliana바카라s Invincible Summer: A Sister바카라s Search for Justice,바카라 by Cristina Rivera Garza
The committee described Ms. Rivera Garza's work as a "genre-bending portrayal of the author's sister, who tragically lost her life at the hands of a former partner." They noted that it blends elements of memoir, feminist investigative journalism, and poetic biography, demonstrating a steadfast resolve arising from the author's personal grief.
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Poetry
Winner: 바카라Tripas: Poems,바카라 by Brandon Som
The committee praised her work as 바카라a collection that deeply engages with the complexities of the poet바카라s dual Mexican and Chinese heritage, highlighting the dignity of his family바카라s working lives, creating community rather than conflict.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For General Non-Fiction
Winner: 바카라A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy,바카라 by Nathan Thrall
For his 바카라finely reported and intimate account of life under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, told through a portrait of a Palestinian father whose 5-year-old son dies in a fiery school bus crash when Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams are delayed by security regulations.바카라
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Music
Winner: 바카라Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),바카라 by Tyshawn Sorey
The committee described Mr. Sorey's saxophone concerto as featuring "a diverse array of textures showcased in a leisurely pace, offering a delicate tribute that is subtly powerful, valuing closeness over grandeur."
Pulitzer Prize 2024 For Special Citations
Winner: Greg Tate
The committee recognized Greg Tate posthumously for his significant impact on shaping public discourse and language regarding hip-hop and street art. "His unique aesthetic, groundbreaking contributions, and intellectual creativity, notably in his pioneering hip-hop critiques, remain influential for future generations, particularly among writers and critics from diverse backgrounds," the committee said.
