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The 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting
For a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, using any available journalistic tool, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Yael Grauer, contributor, of Associated Press

For an astonishing global investigation into state-of-the-art tools of mass surveillance, created in Silicon Valley, advanced in China and spreading worldwide before returning to America for secret new uses by the U.S. Border Patrol.

Winning Work

Biography

Dake Kang covers Chinese politics, technology and society from Beijing for The Associated Press. He’s reported across Central, South, and East Asia, and was a Pulitzer finalist for investigative reporting in China.
 

Garance Burke is a global investigative journalist with The Associated Press based in San Francisco. She focuses on artificial intelligence and government accountability, and her work has been honored as a Pulitzer finalist and with a documentary Emmy Award.

Byron Tau is an investigative reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Associated Press. He focuses on reporting stories about national security, law enforcement, technology and government accountability. He joined the AP in 2008.
 

Aniruddha Ghosal covers the intersection of business and climate change in southeast Asia for The Associated Press. He is based out of Hanoi in Vietnam.

Yael Grauer is an independent investigative tech reporter covering privacy and security, digital freedom, hacking and mass surveillance.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in International Reporting in 2026:

Staff of The Wall Street Journal, notably Jared Malsin

For its intimate, humanizing reporting that laid bare the Assad regime’s atrocities against the Syrian people over 13 years of revolution and war.

Stephanie Nolen of The New York Times

For cataloging in devastating detail the harm caused to vulnerable people across the developing world by the Trump administration’s abrupt dismantling of U.S. humanitarian aid, which had fought disease and promoted good health for decades.

The Jury

Azmat Khan(Chair)*

Patti Cadby Birch Assistant Professor of Journalism; Director, Simon and June Li Center for International Journalism, Columbia University

Alfredo Corchado

Executive News Editor, Puente News Collaborative, El Paso

Ken Ellingwood

Consulting Editor, Seven Days, Burlington

Andrew R.C. Marshall*

Special Correspondent, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Reuters

Evan Osnos

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Winners in International Reporting

2025

Declan Walsh and the Staff of The New York Times

For their revelatory investigation of the conflict in Sudan, including reporting on foreign influence and the lucrative gold trade fueling it, and chilling forensic accounts of the Sudanese forces responsible for atrocities and famine.
2024

Staff of The New York Times

For its wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas’ lethal attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli military’s sweeping, deadly response in Gaza.
2023

Staff of The New York Times

For their unflinching coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including an eight-month investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the town of Bucha and the Russian unit responsible for the killings.
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2026 Prize Winners

Opinion Writing

M. Gessen of The New York Times

For an illuminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw on history and personal experience to probe timely themes of oppression, belonging and exile.
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