2024 | The Pulitzer Prizes

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front row (sitting) left to right: E. Ramshaw, N. Brown, T. Shelby, M. Miller; back row left to right: C. Lozada, N. Barnes, V. T. Nguyen, K. Lytle Hernández, A. Applebaum, J. Cobb (on screen; attending virtually), K. Merida, N. Carroll, S. Chan, D. Remnick (slightly behind S. Chan), G. Escobar, G. Thompson (slightly behind G. Escobar) and E. Alexander (absent: M. Shafik). (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Neil Brown and Tommie Shelby, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Angie Wang, contributor, The New Yorker

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For a vivid illustrated journey with her toddler that explains how human language learning can never be supplanted by AI.

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Categories: Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca and Ren Galeno, contributor, of The Washington Post

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For masterful and sensitive use of the comic form to reveal the story of a great injustice to a group of Filipinos exhibited at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, where some of them died.

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Categories: Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

Bianca Vázquez Toness and Sharon Lurye of the Associated Press

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For a deeply reported series on the corrosive effect of the pandemic on public education, highlighting the staggering number of students missing from classrooms across America.

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Categories: National Reporting

Staff of The Villages Daily Sun

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For its comprehensive investigation and moment-by-moment account of Florida officials’ inaction before, during and after Hurricane Ian, the deadliest storm to strike the state since 1935.

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Categories: Local Reporting

Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute

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For their investigative series on missing Black girls and women in Chicago that revealed how systemic racism and police department neglect contributed to the crisis.

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Categories: Local Reporting

Staffs of The Texas Tribune, ProPublica, and FRONTLINE

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For advancing understanding of law enforcement’s catastrophic response to the mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school and also for documenting the political and policy shortcomings that have led to similar deadly police failures across the country.

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Categories: Explanatory Reporting

Staff of the Honolulu Civil Beat

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For its distinctive, sweeping and urgent coverage of the Maui wildfires that killed more than 100 people and left a historic town in ruins, reporting that held officials to account and chronicled the aftermath and efforts to rebuild. (Moved by the jury from the Local Reporting category.)

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Categories: Breaking News Reporting

Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz, California

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For its detailed and nimble community-focused coverage, over a holiday weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses.

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Categories: Breaking News Reporting

Staff of the Los Angeles Times

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For urgent and thoughtful coverage of a Lunar New Year overnight shooting that left 11 senior citizens dead, demonstrating clear knowledge of and commitment to the local Asian communities.

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Categories: Breaking News Reporting

Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Project

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For her insightful, humane portrait, reported with great difficulty, of men on Death Row in Texas who play clandestine games of “Dungeons & Dragons,” countering their extreme isolation with elaborate fantasy. (Co-published with The New York Times Magazine.)

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Categories: Feature Writing

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