Reuters and The New York Times received the Pulitzer dedicated for the category on Breaking News Photography, with moving pictures taken for refugees in Europe and the Middle East.
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The award for Hamilton overshadowed the crop of literary winners also announced at Columbia University by Mike Pride, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.
In 2015, the first year magazines were permitted to win the Pulitzer Prizes, The New Yorker was a two-time finalist for feature writing.
And Alissa J. Rubin of the New York Times won for her worldwide reporting on Western efforts to help Afghan women.
Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick nabbed the non-fiction award.
The Associated Press won in the “public service” category with its investigative stories on “severe labor abuses tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves, brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms”, the board said.
Explanatory reporting: T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project for their report on the failure of law enforcement to properly investigate rapes.
The AP won the gold medal in public service for its investigation series entitled “Seafood from Slaves” about the Southeast Asian fishing industry.
The Post’s staff was honored Monday for creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why police shoot to kill.
This is the newspaper’s fourth photo Pulitzer in the past three years.
“This is a great day for Florida journalism”, Tampa Bay Times Editor and Vice President Neil Brown told the newsroom in St. Petersburg.
The Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune received the investigative reporting prize for a project on mental hospitals, and the Tampa Bay Times also won in local reporting for studying the harmful effects of ending school integration in Pinellas County, Florida.
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 awards are given by 102 judges who are previously selected by the Pulitzer Prize Board.
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It was the third Pulitzer for Reuters, a unit of Thomson Reuters, having won for global reporting in 2014 and for breaking news photography in 2008. Emily Nussbaum, of The New Yorker, won the Pulitzer for her regular column of television criticism.
