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2025-26 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row (sitting) left to right: N. Trethewey, C. Lozada, N. Carroll, N. Barnes, M. Miller, G. Chua; back row left to right: K. Lytle Hernández, V. T. Nguyen, A. Applebaum, J. Archibald, D. Remnick, J. Pace, V. Iyer, G. Escobar, G. Thompson, K. Merida (absent: J. Cobb). (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)
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Nancy Barnes and Nicole Carroll, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Staff of The Seattle Times

Citation
For its coverage of catastrophic flooding from a major storm system that remained over the Pacific Northwest for days, work that in real time warned residents, relayed the stories of affected communities and explained how weather and geography combined to cause the devastation.
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Categories: Breaking News Reporting

Chicago Tribune

Citation
For its powerful coverage of the Trump administration’s militarized immigration sweep of the city that described in vivid, muscular prose how the siege-like incursion of ICE agents unified Chicagoans in resistance. (Moved by the Board to the Local Reporting category.)
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Categories: Public Service

Staff of The Washington Post

Citation
For reporting that tracked the impact of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, following it from a Chicago park to the White House, a tent encampment in Texas and a Salvadoran prison.
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Categories: National Reporting

Staffs of the Miami Herald and WLRN

Citation
For a dynamically illustrated, data-driven series that exposed the human cost behind the high-speed Brightline railroad, which has killed more people per mile than any other passenger rail system, reporting that triggered the release of safety funding and new crossing standards.
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Categories: Local Reporting
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