New York Times wins 4 Pulitzers, New Yorker 3; Washington Post wins for coverage of Trump shooting

By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK AP The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and the New Yorker three on Monday for journalism in that touched on topics like the fentanyl predicament the U S military and last summer s assassination attempt on President Donald Trump The Pulitzers prestigious residents function 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 current 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 in categories along with eight arts categories including books music and theater The society operation winner receives a gold medal All other winners receive The New York Times demonstrated its breadth with awards honoring reporting from Afghanistan Sudan Baltimore and Butler Pennsylvania Doug Mills won in latest 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 strategy failures in Afghanistan Declan Walsh and the Times staff won for an analysis 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 problem 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 mentioned in an interview I recounted the newsroom currently 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 pivotal stories in our district The Banner created a statistical model that it shared with journalists in cities like Boston Chicago and San Francisco for stories there she declared 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 disclosed 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 citizens 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 developing news reporting for its own coverage of the Trump assassination attempt and in investigative reporting for its partnership with PBS Frontline in stories documenting more than deaths at the hands of police using methods of subduing people that were supposed to be non-lethal David Bauder writes about media for the AP Follow him at http x com dbauder and https bsky app profile dbauder bsky social