Pulitzer News

In 2023, a record-breaking number of migrants braved the harrowing journey to the U.S./Mexico border in hopes of being granted asylum in America. In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, we hear from three Pulitzer-winning journalists who covered different stages of this experience: 2024 Feature Photography staff contributors Iván Valencia & Gregory Bull and two-time Pulitzer-winning reporter Hannah Dreier.

In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, journalists Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler discuss the pathbreaking data- and community-driven reporting that undergirded their 2024 Local Reporting Prize-winning Missing in Chicago project with 2022 Criticism winner Salamishah Tillet, co-founder of the nonprofit A Long Way Home.

In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2023 Drama Prize winner Sanaz Toossi and 2009/2017 Drama winner Lynn Nottage discuss the political implications of contemporary theater — and their respectively circuitous journeys toward eminence in their field — as Toossi prepares for the Broadway run of her Pulitzer-winning "English."

2024 Criticism winner Justin Chang and 2005 Criticism winner Joe Morgenstern offer a cross-generational master class in film criticism, from classical Hollywood cinema and the birth pangs of the New Hollywood era to 'Oppenheimer,' TikTok and beyond.

In the storied tradition of timely coverage of such extreme weather events as the 1974 F5 tornado in Xenia, Ohio and the Gulf region's Hurricane Katrina in 2005, journalists at Lookout Santa Cruz revisit their 2024 Breaking News Reporting Prize-winning coverage of catastrophic flooding and mudslides in Santa Cruz County. 

On this first episode of Season Two of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2024 Commentary winner Vladimir Kara-Murza is in conversation with Pulitzer Board member and 2004 General Nonfiction winner Anne Applebaum.

We heard it through the grapevine: On Wednesday March 26, 2025, Pulitzer on the Road will rev up its (proverbial) 1966 Pontiac GTO and motor into Detroit on a James Jamerson bass line ("Bernadette," please!) for a conversation with recent Pulitzer winners and finalists on cultural criticism today. The event (in partnership with Michigan Central and with support from the Knight Foundation's Detroit Office) will be held at the city's iconic Michigan Central Station.

Unfortunately Cristina Rivera Garza cannot be with us in Chicago. We're delighted to welcome 2005 General Nonfiction finalist Luis Alberto Urrea to join the conversation with Pulitzer Board member and 2007 Poetry winner Natasha Trethewey and and 2019 Fiction finalist Rebecca Makkai in Chicago this coming Wednesday March 5, 2025.

The entry portals will close at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time on January 3, 2025. The deadline for eligibility remains December 31, 2024.

The 2024 class of Pulitzer Prize winners gathered at Columbia University's Low Library on October 24 for a ceremony celebrating their awards.