Katherine Boo, a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine, was a reporter at The Washington Post when her series on mistreatment of mentally challenged people in Washington, DC, resulted in the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Post. The Pulitzer citation praised her work for exposing "wretched neglect and abuse in the city’s group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms."

A prize-winning historian with a particular expertise in the history of communist and post-communist Europe, Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including "Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine" (2017); "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe" (2012); and "Gulag: A History" (2003), which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Both "Gulag" and "Iron Curtain" were finalists for the National Book Award.

Gabriel Escobar is the editor and senior vice president of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which was founded in 1829 and is one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in the Western Hemisphere. The Philadelphia Inquirer LLC has multiple brand platforms, including Inquirer.com, newspapers, e-editions, apps, newsletters and live events, that reach more than 10 million people a month.

Marjorie Miller, previously vice president and global enterprise editor at The Associated Press, was named administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes after a broad search. The appointment, effective April 11, 2022, was announced by the Pulitzer Prize Board and by Lee C. Bollinger, then president of Columbia University, which is home to the administration of the prestigious prizes in journalism, letters, drama and music.