2019 | The Pulitzer Prizes

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front row left to right: N. Carroll, J. Díaz, R. Blau, S. Hahn, D. Canedy, G. Collins, N. Barnes; back row left to right: J. Daniszewski, N. Brown, E. Alexander, K. Boo, E. Robinson, E. Ramshaw, A. Marqués, S. Engelberg, T. Shelby (absent: L. Bollinger, S. Coll) (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Robert Blau and Steven Hahn, co-chairs; Dana Canedy, administrator

Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic

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For luminous columns that expertly explore the intersection of gender and politics with a personal, yet keenly analytical, point of view.

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Categories: Commentary

Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post

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For eloquent reflections on the exile of a teen sexual assault victim in the author’s Texas hometown, delving with moral authority into why the crime remained unpunished.

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Categories: Feature Writing

Hannah Dreier of ProPublica

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For a series of powerful, intimate narratives that followed Salvadoran immigrants on New York’s Long Island whose lives were shattered by a botched federal crackdown on the international criminal gang MS-13.

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Categories: Feature Writing

Deanna Pan and Jennifer Berry Hawes of The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.

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For a deeply moving examination of racial injustice in South Carolina that led to the execution of a 14-year-old black boy wrongfully convicted of killing two white girls, and that ultimately exonerated him seven decades after his death.

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Categories: Feature Writing

Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post

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For trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.

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Categories: Criticism

Jill Lepore of The New Yorker

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For critical, yet restrained, explorations of incredibly varied subjects, from Frankenstein to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that combined literary nuance with intellectual rigor.

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Categories: Criticism

Staff of The Washington Post

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For exhaustive data analysis and haunting storytelling that revealed the vast number of unsolved homicide cases in America’s major cities.

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Categories: Explanatory Reporting

Kyra Gurney, Nicholas Nehamas, Jay Weaver and Jim Wyss of the Miami Herald

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For an ambitious explanation of a far-reaching criminal operation in which South American gold mining fueled international money laundering, urban street crime, environmental degradation, child exploitation, drug trafficking and a thriving precious metals industry in Miami.

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Categories: Explanatory Reporting

Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, Emeryville, Calif. (in collaboration with Associated Press, PRX and the PBS NewsHour)

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For an exposé of redlining that analyzed more than 30 million mortgage records to uncover discrimination in the banking system, highlighting how skin color still shuts out millions of people from home ownership.

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Categories: Explanatory Reporting

Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times

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For impactful reporting, based on sophisticated data analysis, that revealed an alarming rate of patient fatalities following Johns Hopkins’ takeover of a pediatric heart treatment facility.

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Categories: Investigative Reporting

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