The Publish's in depth reporting, revealed in a classy interactive sequence, discovered quite a few issues and failures in political techniques and safety earlier than, throughout and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot within the newspaper's personal yard.
The Washington Publish gained the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its protection of the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, an assault on democracy that was a surprising begin to a tumultuous yr that additionally noticed the tip of america’ longest battle, in Afghanistan.
The Publish‘s in depth reporting, revealed in a classy interactive sequence, discovered quite a few issues and failures in political techniques and safety earlier than, throughout and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot within the newspaper’s personal yard. The riot additionally garnered an award for Getty Photographs, which gained certainly one of two prizes awarded in breaking information pictures.
The U.S. pullout and resurrection of the Taliban’s grip on Afghanistan permeated throughout classes: The opposite prize awarded in breaking information pictures went to Los Angeles Occasions correspondent and photographer Marcus Yam, for work associated to the autumn of Kabul. The New York Occasions gained within the worldwide reporting class for reporting difficult official accounts of civilian deaths from U.S. airstrikes in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pulitzer Prizes, administered by Columbia College and regarded essentially the most prestigious in American journalism, acknowledge work in 15 journalism classes and 7 arts classes. This yr’s awards, which had been livestreamed, honored work produced in 2021. The winner of the general public service award receives a gold medal, whereas winners of every of the opposite classes get $15,000.
The intersection of well being, security and infrastructure performed a distinguished position among the many profitable initiatives.
The Tampa Bay Occasions gained the investigative reporting award for “Poisoned,” its in-depth look right into a polluting lead manufacturing facility. The Miami Herald took the breaking information award for its work protecting the lethal Surfside apartment tower collapse, whereas The Higher Authorities Affiliation and the Chicago Tribune gained the native reporting award for “Lethal Fires, Damaged Guarantees,” the watchdog and newspaper’s examination of a scarcity of enforcement of fireside security requirements.
“As a newsroom, we poured our hearts into the breaking information and the continued every day protection, and subsequent investigative protection, of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse story,” The Miami Herald‘s government editor, Monica Richardson, wrote in an announcement. “It was our story to inform as a result of the folks and the households in Surfside who had been impacted by this unthinkable tragedy are part of our group.”
Elsewhere in Florida, Tampa Bay Occasions‘ editor and vice chairman Mark Katches mirrored that sentiment, calling his newspaper’s win “a testomony to the significance of an important native newsroom just like the Occasions.”
The Pulitzer Prizes additionally awarded a particular quotation to journalists of Ukraine, acknowledging their “braveness, endurance and dedication” in protecting the continued Russian invasion that started earlier this yr. Final August, the Pulitzer board granted a particular quotation to Afghan journalists who risked their security to assist produce information tales and pictures from their very own war-torn nation.