2025 | The Pulitzer Prizes

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The members of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize Board

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front row (sitting) left to right: N. Carroll, C. Lozada, K. Lytle Hernández, E. Alexander, E. Ramshaw, M. Miller, N. Barnes; back row left to right: J. Archibald, A. Applebaum, N. Trethewey, S. Chan, G. Thompson, G. Escobar, K. Merida, D. Remnick, V. T. Nguyen, G. Chua (absent: C. Shipman, J. Cobb). (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Elizabeth Alexander and Emily Ramshaw, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Jason Roberts

Citation

A beautifully written double biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon, 18th century contemporaries who devoted their lives to identifying and describing nature’s secrets, and who continue to influence how we understand the world.

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Categories: Biography

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Random House

Publication

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Dan Taberski, Henry Molofsky, Morgan Jones, Marshall Lewy and Staffs of Wondery and Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios

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For “Hysterical,” a fascinating series that traced the outbreak of a mysterious and apparently contagious nerve disorder in upstate New York that largely affected young women, and the frustrating efforts to identify it.

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Categories: Audio Reporting

Staffs of WNYC and Gothamist

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For their revelatory investigation into decades of sexual assault of female inmates on Rikers Island.

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Categories: Audio Reporting

Staff of The New Yorker

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For their “In the Dark” podcast, a combination of compelling storytelling and relentless reporting in the face of obstacles from the U.S. military, a four-year investigation into one of the most high-profile crimes of the Iraq War–the murder of 25 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha.

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Categories: Audio Reporting