New York Times wins 4 Pulitzers, New Yorker 3; Washington Post wins for
coverage of Trump shooting
[May 06, 2025]
By DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and the New
Yorker three on Monday for journalism in 2024 that touched on topics
like the fentanyl crisis, the U.S. military and last summer’s
assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.
The Pulitzers’ prestigious public service medal went to ProPublica for
the second straight year. Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra
Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz were honored for reporting on pregnant women
who died after doctors delayed urgent care in states with strict
abortion laws.
The Washington Post won for “urgent and illuminating” breaking news
coverage of the Trump assassination attempt. The Pulitzers honored Ann
Telnaes, who quit the Post in January after the news outlet refused to
run her editorial cartoon lampooning tech chiefs — including Post owner
Jeff Bezos — cozying up to Trump. The Pulitzers praised her
“fearlessness.”
The Pulitzers honored the best in journalism from 2024 in 15 categories,
along with eight arts categories including books, music and theater. The
public service winner receives a gold medal. All other winners receive
$15,000.
The New York Times showed its breadth with awards honoring reporting
from Afghanistan, Sudan, Baltimore and Butler, Pennsylvania. Doug Mills
won in breaking news photography for his pictures of the Trump
assassination attempt, including one that captured a bullet in the air
near the GOP candidate.
The Times’ Azam Ahmed and Christina Goldbaum and contributing writer
Matthieu Aikins won an explanatory reporting prize for examining U.S.
policy failures in Afghanistan. Declan Walsh and the Times’ staff won
for an investigation into the Sudan conflict.
A big milestone for a new local news outlet
The Times was also part of a collaboration with The Baltimore Banner,
whose reporters Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher won in
local reporting for stories on that city's fentanyl crisis and its
disproportionate effect on Black men. The Banner was created three years
ago, with several staffers who had left the Baltimore Sun.
“This is a huge milestone for us,” editor in chief Kimi Yoshino said in
an interview. “I told the newsroom today that never in my wildest dreams
did I think we would be here at this moment. It is a testament to the
power of local news, the need for local news and what journalists can do
when they focus on important stories in our community.”
The Banner created a statistical model that it shared with journalists
in cities like Boston, Chicago and San Francisco for stories there, she
said.
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A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its
building, May 6, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
 Reuters won for its own
investigative series on fentanyl, showing how lax regulation both
inside and outside the United States makes the drug inexpensive and
widely available. inewsource.org in San Diego was a finalist in the
illustrated reporting and commentary category for its stories on
fentanyl.
The New Yorker’s Mosab Abu Toha won for his
commentaries on Gaza. The magazine also won for its “In the Dark”
podcast about the killing of Iraqi civilians by the U.S. military
and in feature photography for Moises Saman’s pictures of the
Sednaya prison in Syria.
The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer for its reporting on Elon
Musk, “including his turn to conservative politics, his use of legal
and illegal drugs and his private conversations with Russian
President Vladimir Putin,” the Pulitzer board said. The Journal was
also a finalist for its “cool-headed” reporting on the plight of
Evan Gershkovich, who was imprisoned in Russia.
A special citation for a career covering civil rights
The Pulitzers also gave a special citation to the late Chuck Stone
for his work covering the civil rights movement. The pioneering
journalist was the first Black columnist at the Philadelphia Daily
News and founded the National Association of Black Journalists.
Mark Warren of Esquire won the feature writing prize for his
portrait of a Baptist pastor and small-town mayor who died by
suicide after his secret online life was exposed by a right-wing
news site.
Alexandra Lange, a contributing writer for Bloomberg CityLab won an
award in criticism for “graceful and genre-expanding” writing about
public spaces for families.
The Houston Chronicle Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg
and Leah Binkovitz won the Pulitzer in editorial writing for its
series on dangerous train crossings.
The Associated Press was a finalist in breaking news reporting for
its own coverage of the Trump assassination attempt, and in
investigative reporting for its partnership with PBS FRONTLINE and
the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of
Maryland and at Arizona State University for stories documenting
more than 1,000 deaths at the hands of police using methods of
subduing people that were supposed to be non-lethal.
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