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

The New York Times, for relentless reporting by Dave Philipps

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That forced Congress and the Pentagon to acknowledge the devastating brain injuries U.S. troops were suffering from the effects of repeated low level blasts during weapons training.

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Categories: Public Service

Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz of the Houston Chronicle

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For a powerful series on dangerous train crossings that kept a rigorous focus on the people and communities at risk as the newspaper demanded urgent action.

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Categories: Editorial Writing

Opinion Staff of The New York Times, notably W. J. Hennigan and Kathleen Kingsbury

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For a powerful, graphic series on the potential horrors of nuclear war, raising critical questions for policymakers, and offering recommendations that might strengthen deterrence.

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Categories: Editorial Writing

David Scharfenberg, Alan Wirzbicki and Marcela García of The Boston Globe

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For their politically courageous and deeply reported editorials on how Boston can humanely and effectively close underutilized schools in ways that improve student learning.

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Categories: Editorial Writing

Mark Warren, contributor, Esquire

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For a sensitive portrait of a Baptist pastor and small town mayor who died by suicide after his secret digital life was exposed by a right-wing news site.

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Categories: Feature Writing

Anand Gopal, contributing writer, The New Yorker

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For a deeply reported narrative of a woman’s life before and after she is imprisoned at an isolated detention camp in eastern Syria, illustrating how love and family intersect with larger geopolitical concerns.

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Categories: Feature Writing

Joe Sexton, contributor, The Marshall Project

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For his exclusive inside account of a legal team’s efforts to spare the Parkland high school shooter from the death penalty, a saga of moral complexity, constitutional law and shattering trauma for those involved.

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Categories: Feature Writing

Alexandra Lange, contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab

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For graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.

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Categories: Criticism

Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker

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For illuminating and personal reviews of work that appears on television, streaming services or social media, trenchant criticism that explores contemporary issues and society.

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Categories: Criticism

Sara Holdren of New York Magazine

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For insightful theater criticism that combines a reporter's eye and a historian's memory to inform readers about current stage productions.

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Categories: Criticism

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