The 2021 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Friday after one of the toughest years for journalism in recent memory. Many award recipients this …
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Teenager Darnella Frazier Wins Special Pulitzer
The most prestigious prizes in journalism and the arts, the Pulitzers, were given out today. Here's all you need to know about the awards and who won them, including Darnella Frazier, the teen whose cellphone video of George Floyd's murder outraged the world and led to his killer's conviction. Plus, read some of the groundbreaking pieces that caught the judges' eyes.
Darnella Frazier, the woman whose cellphone video of George Floyd’s killing by police in Minneapolis prompted outrage across the world, was awarded …
A Pulitzer Prize judge, board member, finalist and winner pull the curtain back on the prestigious award process.
Breaking News: Staff of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis
For "its urgent, authoritative and nuanced coverage of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis and of the reverberations that followed."
George Floyd remembered in Mpls., and around world At the south Minneapolis street corner where George Floyd was killed by police a year ago Tuesday, …
Public Service: The New York Times
For "courageous, prescient and sweeping coverage of the coronavirus pandemic that exposed racial and economic inequities, government failures in the U.S. and beyond, and filled a data vacuum that helped local governments, healthcare providers, businesses and individuals to be better prepared and protected."
On her first day as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January, Dr. Rochelle Walensky ordered a review of all Covid-related guidance on the agency’s website. Some of its advice had been twisted by the Trump administration, and her message was clear: The C.D.C. would no …
Investigative Reporting: Boston Globe
Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy for "reporting that uncovered a systematic failure by state governments to share information about dangerous truck drivers that could have kept them off the road, prompting immediate reforms."
But neither law could save seven motorcyclists from dying on a lonely New Hampshire road last year allegedly at the hands of a drugged driver from …
Local Reporting: Tampa Bay Times
Kathleen McGrory and Niel Bedi for "resourceful, creative reporting that exposed how a powerful and politically connected sheriff built a secretive intelligence operation that harassed residents and used grades and child welfare records to profile schoolchildren."
Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county. By KATHLEEN McGRORY …
National Reporting: Marshall Project, AL.com, IndyStar & Invisible InstitutE
For a collaborative project between four titles, "a year-long investigation of K-9 units and the damage that police dogs inflict on Americans, including innocent citizens and police officers, prompting numerous statewide reforms."
Police departments love to show off their dogs—at parades or on Twitter, visiting classrooms or posing with a Girl Scout troop. Some K-9s even have …
Feature Writing: Runners' World/California Sunday Magazine
Mitchell S. Johnson of Runners' World for "a deeply affecting account of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery that combined vivid writing, thorough reporting and personal experience to shed light on systemic racism in America." Nadja Drost of the California Sunday Magazine for "a brave and gripping account of global migration that documents a group’s journey on foot through the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous migrant routes in the world."
Ahmaud Arbery went out for a jog and was gunned down in the street. How running fails Black America This story won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. It appeared in Issue 5, 2020 of Runner’s World. Imagine young Ahmaud “Maud” Arbery, a junior varsity scatback …
Dusk was descending through the rainforest when the Cameroonians and Pakistanis stumbled into the campsite. They were in their 20s and 30s and loaded …
Explanatory Reporting: The Atlantic/Reuters
Ed Yong of The Atlantic for a series of lucid, definitive pieces on the COVID-19 pandemic that... provided clear and accessible context for the scientific and human challenges it posed." Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jacki Botts of Reuters for "an exhaustive examination, powered by a pioneering data analysis of U.S. federal court cases, of the obscure legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” and how it shields police who use excessive force from prosecution."
As protests continue over police tactics, Reuters reveals how a legal doctrine called qualified immunity makes it easier for cops to get away with abuse.
Breaking News Photography: Associated Press
For "a collection of photographs from multiple U.S. cities that cohesively captures the country's response to the death of George Floyd."
Associated Press photographers awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Friday had dodged tear gas to capture protests against racial injustice and patiently built trust with elderly people to empathetically document the toll of the coronavirus pandemic. AP’s chief photographer in Spain, Emilio Morenatti, won …
