2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Awards Announced: New York Times, ProPublica, and More honored in Journalism and Arts Categories

Pulitzer winners this year include the New York Times and ProPublica as well as authors including Jayne Anne Phillips and Jonathan Eig.

The Pulitzers honored the best in journalism from 2023 in 15 categories, as well as eight arts categories focusing on books, music and theater. The public service winner will receive a gold medal. Each other winner will receive $15,000.

The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize in special footage for his coverage of global migration through Latin America to the US and the New York Times and Reuters news service won Pulitzers for their coverage of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath.

The prestigious Pulitzer prize in public service went to ProPublica for reporting that it “pierced the thick wall of secrecy” surrounding the US supreme court to reveal how billionaires gave gifts and traveled to judges.

The Pulitzers also issued special citations to journalists and writers covering the war in Gaza, and to the late hip-hop critic Greg Tate.

The New York Times staff won for its “extensive and revealing coverage” of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the intelligence failures by Israel and the country’s response in Gaza.

Hannah Dreier won the Times Pulitzer in investigative reporting for her stories about migrant child labor across the United States. Writer Katie Engelhart won the newspaper’s third Pulitzer, in feature writing, for her portrayal of a family struggling with a matriarch’s depression.

The Washington Post staff won national coverage for their “sobering investigation” of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which came with some impressive photos. The Post’s David E Hoffman won in editorial writing for a “compelling and well-researched” series on how authoritarian regimes suppress dissent in the digital age. His third award went to contributor Vladimir Kara-Murza, for reporting from a prison cell in Russia.

The public service award honored ProPublica reporters Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg, whose stories led the top court to adopt its first code of conduct.

The New Yorker magazine won two Pulitzers. Sarah Stillman won in explanatory statement for her report on how the legal system is responsible for criminal homicide charges. Medar de la Cruz, a contributor, won in photo and narrative narrative for his story of angering inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island prison.

Jayne Anne Phillips’ Night Watch, a mother-daughter saga set in an asylum in post-civil war West Virginia, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The drama prize was awarded to Eboni Booth Primary Trust, about a bookshop worker’s unexpected journey after losing her job.

Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy won for general non-fiction, while Jacqueline Jones won the history prize for No Right to an Honest Life: The Struggle of Black Workers in Wartime Boston Civil.

Two winners were announced Monday in the biography category: Jonathan Eig for his biography Martin Luther King King: A Life and Ilyon Woo for Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom. Cristina Rivera Garza’s investigation into her sister’s murder, Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, won for memoir autobiography, and Brandon Som’s Tripas won the poetry award.

The music winner was Tyshawn Sorey’s saxophone concert Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith).

The Pulitzers are administered by Columbia University in New York, which itself has been in the news for student demonstrations against the war in Gaza. The Pulitzer board met away from Columbia last weekend to discuss their winners.