Members of the 2019 International Reporting team of winners, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested in December 2017 after helping expose a massacre of 10 Muslim men.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student newspaper The Eagle Eye submitted two issues for Pulitzer consideration this year, culminating in an acknowledgement from Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy at the announcement.
Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy announced the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University's School of Journalism on Monday, April 15. Watch video of the announcement and read the full list of winners.
In his decades-long career, the two-time Poetry winner remained committed to world literature, ecology and pacifism.
Pulitzer Prize Board Member Aminda Marqués González, who serves as executive editor of the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald, will expand her role to also become editor and publisher of Miami Herald Media Company, effective April 15.
A mainstay of New York's art and media worlds for more than 50 years, the 1974 Criticism winner played an integral role in popularizing new movements while overcoming the misogyny of her era.
The 2019 Journalism deadline was January 25. Winners and finalists will be announced on April 15.
Read Baker's keynote address from the Pulitzer 75th Anniversary Celebration in 1991 for the first time on Pulitzer.org.
The 1984 Poetry winner "[presented] a new kind of Romanticism that refuses to acknowledge boundaries between nature and the observing self."
