The Pulitzer Prizes on Monday honoured The Washington Post for hard-hitting reporting on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and The New York Times for revealing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s covert power grab, praising their probing of powerful people despite a hostile climate for the news media. The Daily News of New York and ProPublica, a web-based platform specialising in investigative journalism, won the prize for public service journalism for coverage of New York police abuses that forced mostly poor minorities from their homes.
Here is a look at this year’s winners:
Journalism
Public Service
Public Service
New York Daily News and ProPublica
Investigative Reporting
Eric Eyre of Charleston Gazette-Mail, Charleston, WV
Explanatory Reporting
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and Miami Herald
National Reporting
The New York Times staff
Feature Writing
C J Chivers of The New York Times
Commentary
Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal
Editorial Writing
Art Cullen of The Storm Lake Times, Storm Lake, IA
Editorial Cartooning
Jim Morin of Miami Herald
Breaking News Photography
Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer
Feature Photography
E Jason Wambsgans of Chicago Tribune
LETTERS, DRAMA & MUSIC Fiction
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead; Doubleday
Drama
Sweat by Lynn Nottage
Biography or Autobiography
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar; Random House
Poetry
Olio by Tyehimba Jess; Wave Books
General Non-fiction
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond; Crown
Music
Angel’s Bone by Du Yun
Sources: Pulitzer.org, Reuters