2026 | The Pulitzer Prizes

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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

Aaron Parsley of Texas Monthly

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For his extraordinary personal account of survival and loss written days after the historic Central Texas floods that tore the writer’s house out from under him and his family, taking the life of his nephew.

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Categories: Feature Writing

Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker

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For an extraordinary exploration of how some patients diagnosed with schizophrenia actually have autoimmune conditions—and what happens after they’re treated.

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Categories: Feature Writing

Emily Baumgaertner Nunn of The New York Times

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For her deeply and sensitively reported narrative that chronicles the explosion of child sex trafficking in Los Angeles.

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Categories: Feature Writing

Mark Lamster of The Dallas Morning News

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For his rigorous and passionate architecture criticism, using wit and expertise to amplify his opinions and advocate for city residents.

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Categories: Criticism

Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker

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For sophisticated, accessible essays on the media, with an emphasis on television, that address shifts in culture, politics and American life with clear-eyed authority.

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Categories: Criticism

Michael J. Lewis of The Wall Street Journal

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For informed and insightful writing about architecture that brings the inanimate to life and reflects a deep understanding that buildings are at once visual and civic spaces.

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Categories: Criticism

Gustavo Arellano of the Los Angeles Times

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For passionate, vivid commentary on the cruelty endured by families and communities in the Los Angeles area targeted by federal mass deportation policy.

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Categories: Opinion Writing

Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times

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For a wrenching and impactful series of columns imploring Americans to face the deadly consequences of the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Categories: Opinion Writing

M. Gessen of The New York Times

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For an illuminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw on history and personal experience to probe timely themes of oppression, belonging and exile.

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Categories: Opinion Writing

Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Yael Grauer, contributor, of Associated Press

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For an astonishing global investigation into state-of-the-art tools of mass surveillance, created in Silicon Valley, advanced in China and spreading worldwide before returning to America for secret new uses by the U.S. Border Patrol.

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Categories: International Reporting

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