2022 | The Pulitzer Prizes

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front row left to right: E. Ramshaw, N. Carroll, J. Daniszewski, G. Collins, M. Miller, G. Escobar, T. Shelby; back row left to right: N. Brown, C. Lozada, V. T. Nguyen, E. Alexander, K. Lytle Hernández, K. Merida; N. Barnes; attending virtually (clockwise): L. Bollinger, D. Remnick, K. Boo, A. Applebaum (absent: S. Coll) (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Katherine Boo, Gail Collins and John Daniszewski, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Staff of Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y., notably Natalie Wolchover

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For coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to facilitate groundbreaking astronomical and cosmological research.

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Categories: Explanatory Reporting

Madison Hopkins of the Better Government Association and Cecilia Reyes of the Chicago Tribune

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For a piercing examination of the city’s long history of failed building- and fire-safety code enforcement, which let scofflaw landlords commit serious violations that resulted in dozens of unnecessary deaths.

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Categories: Local Reporting

Lulu Ramadan of The Palm Beach Post and Ash Ngu, Maya Miller and Nadia Sussman of ProPublica

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For a comprehensive investigation, including interactives and graphics, that revealed dangerous air quality during Florida’s sugar cane harvest season and prompted significant reforms.

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Categories: Local Reporting

Eli Hager of The Marshall Project and Joseph Shapiro, contributor, of National Public Radio

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For powerful reporting that exposed how local government agencies throughout America quietly pocketed Social Security benefits intended for children in foster care.

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Categories: National Reporting

Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry of Getty Images

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For comprehensive and consistently riveting photos of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Categories: Breaking News Photography

Anonymous, freelance contributor, The New York Times

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For striking images, conducted at great personal risk, of the military coup in Myanmar.

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Categories: Breaking News Photography

Gabrielle Lurie of the San Francisco Chronicle

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For intimate and harrowing images of a mother’s attempts to care for her homeless, drug-addicted daughter.

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Categories: Feature Photography

Photography Staff of Reuters

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For images of climate change collected around the globe, effectively portraying extreme and dangerous natural events as common and widespread threats to human life.

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Categories: Feature Photography

Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters

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For images of COVID’s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place. (Moved from Breaking News Photography by the jury.)

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Categories: Feature Photography

Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider, New York, N.Y.

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For using graphic reportage and the comics medium to tell a powerful yet intimate story of the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, making the issue accessible to a wider public.

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Categories: Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

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