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

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson, contributors, The Boston Globe

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For “True Stories From an ICU,” a beautiful, funny and frequently haunting depiction of the fragility of human life, with each frame perfectly paced over a seamless scroll.

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Categories: Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

Iran Martinez, Steve Breen, Jamie Self and Giovanni Moujaes of inewsource.org, San Diego

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For “Fentanyl: A Decade of Death,” which deftly weaves hard data and human stories with effective metaphors to create a powerful visual narrative for a national audience and the local San Diego readership.

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Categories: Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

Nanna Heitmann, contributor, Tyler Hicks, David Guttenfelder and Nicole Tung, contributor, of The New York Times

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For their persistence in photographing the war in Ukraine capturing the horror for both sides of the intractable conflict that has killed or wounded more than a million Ukrainians and Russians.

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Categories: Breaking News Photography

Doug Mills of The New York Times

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For a sequence of photos of the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, including one image that captures a bullet whizzing through the air as he speaks.

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Categories: Breaking News Photography

Photography Staff of Agence France-Presse

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For a variety of powerful images, shot entirely by a team of Palestinian journalists, that encapsulate the enduring humanity of the people of Gaza amid widespread destruction and loss.

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Categories: Breaking News Photography

Katey Rusch and Casey Smith, contributors, San Francisco Chronicle, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program

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For a multiyear investigation into a secret system of legal settlements that concealed California police misconduct for decades and kept offending officers in positions of power.

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Categories: Local Reporting

Mike Reicher, Lynda Mapes, Fiona Martin and Kevin Clark of The Seattle Times

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For their investigative series revealing how the Washington state government spent $1 million per day on construction that failed to safeguard either the salmon or the tribal treaty rights it was meant to protect.

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Categories: Local Reporting

Jennifer Gollan and Susie Neilson of the San Francisco Chronicle

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For an immersive and revelatory series that exposed the soaring death toll tied to police pursuits and detailed the near-total immunity that shields officers who initiate deadly chases.

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Categories: National Reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

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For a sweeping examination of the human and environmental toll of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, including stories about the arrival of conspiracy theorists in one town and the efforts of residents of another to rebuild three months later.

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Categories: National Reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

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For haunting accountability journalism that documented Israeli atrocities in the Gaza strip and investigated the killings of Palestinian journalists, paramedics and a 6-year-old girl whose recorded pleas for help touched a nerve around the world.

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Categories: International Reporting

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