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

John Archibald

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Reporter and Columnist

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John

Last name

Archibald

Years

2025

2026

John Archibald, a two-time Pulitzer winner, is a reporter and columnist at AL.com, and an award-winning podcaster. Archibald won the Pulitzer for Commentary in 2018 for his “lyrical and courageous” columns. He also was the lead reporter on AL.com’s 2023 Local Reporting Prize-winning investigation of out-of-control policing in the tiny Alabama town of Brookside.

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AL.com

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Natasha Trethewey

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Board of Trustees Professor of English

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Natasha

Last name

Trethewey

Years

2025

2026

Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th poet laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Native Guard (2006) — for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize — and, most recently, Monument: Poems New and Selected (2018); a book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010); a memoir, Memorial Drive (2020), an instant New York Times Bestseller; and The House of Being (2024), a meditation on writing.

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Northwestern University

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Nicole Carroll

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Executive Director, NEWSWELL and Professor of Practice

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Nicole

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Carroll

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Nicole Carroll joined the ASU Media Enterprise on May 1, 2023 as executive director of a new initiative focused on reimagining local journalism. Carroll is also a professor of practice in the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is an alumna of the Cronkite School and an inductee to its Hall of Fame.

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Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University

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Jelani Cobb

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Dean, Graduate School of Journalism and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism

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Jelani

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Cobb

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Jelani Cobb joined the Columbia Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNOW since 2019.

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Columbia University

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Carlos Lozada

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Opinion Columnist

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Carlos

Last name

Lozada

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Carlos Lozada is an Opinion columnist and cohost of the weekly “Matter of Opinion” podcast for The New York Times, based in Washington, D.C.

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The New York Times

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Anne Applebaum

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Author and Staff Writer

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Anne

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Applebaum

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A prize-winning historian with a particular expertise in the history of communist and post-communist Europe, Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including "Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine" (2017); "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe" (2012); and "Gulag: A History" (2003), which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Both "Gulag" and "Iron Curtain" were finalists for the National Book Award.

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The Atlantic

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Gabriel Escobar

Job title

Editor and Senior Vice President

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Gabriel

Last name

Escobar

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Gabriel Escobar is the editor and senior vice president of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which was founded in 1829 and is one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in the Western Hemisphere. The Philadelphia Inquirer LLC has multiple brand platforms, including Inquirer.com, newspapers, e-editions, apps, newsletters and live events, that reach more than 10 million people a month.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Marjorie Miller

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Administrator

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Marjorie

Last name

Miller

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Marjorie Miller, previously vice president and global enterprise editor at The Associated Press, was named administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes after a broad search. The appointment, effective April 11, 2022, was announced by the Pulitzer Prize Board and by Lee C. Bollinger, then president of Columbia University, which is home to the administration of the prestigious prizes in journalism, letters, drama and music.

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The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University

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Kelly Lytle Hernández

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Professor of History, African American Studies & Urban Planning and Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History

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Kelly

Last name

Lytle Hernández

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Kelly Lytle Hernández holds the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of the award-winning books Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022).

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

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University Professor, Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Comparative Literature

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Viet Thanh

Last name

Nguyen

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Viet Thanh Nguyen is a University Professor, Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

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University of Southern California

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