The New York Times and Reuters shared this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for their images of the devastating migrant crisis in Europe and the Middle East.
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The Pulitzer Prizes were founded by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer in 1917 and are awarded every year by Columbia University in NY.
In 2015, the first year magazines were permitted to win the Pulitzer Prizes, The New Yorker was a two-time finalist for feature writing.
Priya Krishnakumar (Medill ’14) works as a graphics and data journalist at The Los Angeles Times, whose staff won in the breaking news category for its coverage of the December terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.
The New Yorker, which, as a magazine, was newly eligible for the certain categories, won two awards.
“Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS” by Joby Warrick won for general nonfiction.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, 36, the show’s creator and star, on Monday won the Pulitzer for the hip-hop show about Alexander Hamilton, which started off-Broadway at the Public Theater, and is the now impossible-to-get ticket on Broadway. The investigation process reported that over 2,000 slaves were tied to the seafood distribution.
New York City has even implemented the musical into the public school curriculum. One in Local Reporting for the series “Failure Factories”, which compared the quality of public education in Florida’s Pinellas County after the county ended school integration.
The Pulitzers are considered the most prestigious prizes in journalism, a crowning achievement in the careers of some writers, and a catapult for others.
The AP’s prize-winning report was an investigation into the mistreatment of workers used to supply seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants.
With today’s win, the L.A. Times stands as the most frequent victor in this category’s latest iteration with three prizes.
Also, Jack Hackworth, of Sun Newspapers in Charlotte Harbor, Fla., won for editorials on a deadly assault of an inmate by guards.
Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune won an award for collaborative efforts on Investigative Reporting shedding light on escalating violence and neglect in Florida mental hospitals and laid the blame at the door of state officials.
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The Washington Post won its 49th Pulitzer, for national reporting, for its coverage of police officer involved shootings in the United States.
