On Monday, the Pulitzer Prize winners for Journalism, Books, Drama, and Music for 2022 were revealed.
The Washington Post, which comprised Indians Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave, and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters in Journalism, won the winners.
Ukrainian journalists were honored with a special commendation for the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 2022, while jurors praised coverage of the January 6th assaults on the Capitol, the exit from Afghanistan, and the Surfside condominium disaster in Florida.
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For their photographs depicting Covid’s toll on India, Reuters photographers Danish Siddiqui, Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, and Amit Dave were posthumously awarded a Pulitzer. Last year, Siddiqui was slain while reporting on an encounter between Afghan special forces and Taliban terrorists.
The following is a complete list of journalism award winners and details of their prizes:
Public Service
The Washington Post won for its coverage of January 6, 2021, attack on Washington.
Breaking News Reporting
The Miami Herald crew won for their coverage of the Seaside apartment complexes’ collapse in Florida.
Investigative Reporting
The Tampa Bay Times’ Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington, and Eli Murray won for exposing hazardous risks within Florida’s sole battery recycling factory, forcing the company to take safety measures to safeguard employees and adjacent neighbors.
Explanatory Reporting
Winner: Quanta Magazine’s staff, particularly Natalie Wolchover, for reporting on the Webb Space Telescope’s operation.
Local Reporting
Madison Hopkins of the Better Government Association and Cecilia Reyes of the Chicago Tribune were named winners for their investigation into Chicago’s lengthy history of failing to enforce construction and fire safety codes.
National Reporting
The New York Times crew won for a report that quantified a troubling trend of fatal traffic stops by cops.
International Reporting
Winner: The New York Times team for reporting disclosed the massive civilian casualties of US-led bombings in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, undermining official explanations of American military actions.
Feature Writing
Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic was named the winner for representing a family’s grief in the 20 years following 9/11.
Commentary
Melinda Henneberger of the Kansas City Star was named the winner for her convincing editorials seeking justice for the victims of a former police investigator suspected of sexually predatory behavior.
Criticism
Salamishah Tillet, a contributing critic at large for The New York Times, was named the winner for her work on Black narrative in art and popular culture.
Editorial Writing
Winner: The Houston Chronicle’s Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley, and Luis Carrasco for a campaign that exposed voter suppression techniques, debunked the idea of rampant voter fraud and campaigned for rational voting changes via original reporting.
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Insider’s Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams, and Walt Hickey won for a comic about an internment camp for Uyghurs.
Photographs of Breaking News
The Los Angeles Times’ Marcus Yam won for his honest and urgent photos of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Getty Images Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum, and Jon Cherry won for their comprehensive and consistently fascinating photographs of the US Capitol assault.
Feature Photography
For photographs showing COVID’s toll in India, Reuters’ Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave, and the late Danish Siddiqui won.
Audio Reporting
Futuro Media and PRX’s “Suave,” an immersive profile of a man reentering society after more than 30 years in jail, was named the winner.
The following were on the list for Books, Drama, and Music:
Fiction
Joshua Cohen’s book The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family won the prize.
Drama
Fat Ham, by James Ijames, was the winner.
History
The winners were Nicole Eustace’s Covered with Night and Ada Ferrer’s Cuba: An American History.
Biography
Winner: Winfred Rembert’s Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, as recounted to Erin I. Kelly.
Poetry
Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets was the winner.
Nonfiction in general
Andrea Elliott’s Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City was named the winner.
Music
Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass was the winner.
The Pulitzer Prize is an award given in the United States for accomplishments in newspaper, magazine, internet journalism, literature, and musical creation.
It is governed by Columbia University and was founded in 1917 by stipulations in Joseph Pulitzer’s legacy, who gained his wealth as a newspaper publisher.
