The Pulitzer Prize Board announced winners and nominated finalists of the 108th Pulitzer Prize Monday.
Marjorie Miller, Administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and the Vice President and Global Enterprise Editor at The Associated Press, announced the winners and finalists, which were awarded and designated on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University, according to a press release by the institution.
"The Pulitzer Prizes are more than journalism's esteemed honor," said Neil Brown, co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board. "They are a commitment to the highest standards of fairness, honesty and storytelling for those who pursue facts and reveal uncomfortable truths."
The Pulitzer Prize Board, on Thursday, also said it "recognizes the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk."
2024 Pulitzer Prize winners
Miller announced the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners and nominated finalists via livestream on Monday.
"This year there was remarkable coverage of the Hamas attack on Israel and two wars in Gaza and Ukraine," Miller said before announcing winners in the field of Journalism. "There were tragic natural disasters in Hawaii and Turkey."
"The entries included many instances of workplace harm to employees, consumers and soldiers, hate crimes and criminal justice. Corruption and impunity and migration remained persistent themes in American life. And globally we saw stories on the proliferation of undemocratic uses of technology, along with the growing presence of AI in our lives."
Winners were awarded under the following categories in the field of journalism.
Breaking news reporting
Staff of the Honolulu Civil Beat
Staff of Los Angeles Times
Winner: Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz, California
Investigative Reporting
Staff of Bloomberg
Winner: Hannah Dreier of The New York Times
Casey Ross and Rob Herman of STAT
Public service
KFF Health News and Cox Media Group
Winner: ProPublica, for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliot, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg
The Washington Post
Explanatory reporting
Staff of Bloomberg
Winner: Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker
Staff of The Texas Tribune, ProPublica and FRONTLINE
Local reporting
Winner: Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute
Jerry Mitchell, Ilyssa Daly, Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield of Mississippi Today and The New York Times
Staff of The Villages Daily Sun
National reporting
Bianca Vázquez Toness and Sharon Lurye of the Associated Press
Dave Phillips of The New York Times
Winner: Staff of Reuters
Winner: Staff of The Washington Post
International reporting
Winner: Staff of The New York Times
Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios of The New York Times
Staff of The Washington Post
Feature writing
Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Project, co-published with The New York Times Magazine
Winner: Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times
Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic
Commentary
Brian Lyman of the Alabama Reflector
Jay Caspian Kang of The New Yorker
Winner: Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post
Criticism
Zadie Smith, contributor, The New York Review of Books
Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker
Winner: Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times
Editorial writing
Isadora Rangel of the Miami Herald
Brandon McGinley and Rebecca Spiess of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Winner: David E. Hoffman of The Washington Post
Illustrated reporting and commentary
Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press
Winner: Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker
Angie Wang, contributor, The New Yorker
Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca and Ren Galeno, contributor, of The Washington Post
Breaking news photography
Adem Altan of Agence France Presse
Nicole S. Hester of The Tennessean
Winner: Photography Staff of Reuters
Feature photography
Hannah Reyes Morales, contributor, The New York Times
Nanna Heitman, contributor, The New York Times
Photography Staff of Associated Press
Audio reporting
Winner: Staff of the Invisible Institute, Chicago and USG Audio, California
Dan Slepian and Preeti Varathan, contributor, of NBC News
Lauran Chooljian, Alison Macadam, Jason Moon, Daniel Barrick and Katie Colaneri of New Hampshire Public Radio
Categories under "Arts and Letters" include:
Drama
"Here There Are Blueberries" by Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
Winner: "Primary Trust" by Eboni Booth
"Public Obscenities" by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
History
Winner: "No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era" by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
"Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion" by Elliot West (University of Nebraska Press)
"American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" by Michael Willrich (Basic Books)
Biography
"Larry McMurtry: A Life" by Tracy Daughtery
Winner: "King: A Life" by Jonathan Eig
Winner: "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" by Ilyon Woo
Memoir or Autobiography
Winner: "Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice" by Cristina Rivera Garza
"The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight" by Andrew Leland
"The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness and the Tragedy of Good Intentions" by Jonathen Rosen
Poetry
"To 2040" by Jorie Graham
"Information Desk: An Epic" by Robyn Schiff
Winner: "Tripas: Poems" by Brandom Som
General Nonfiction
"Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World" by John Vaillant
Winner: "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy" by Nathan Thrall
"Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives" by Sidharth
Music
"Double Concerto for esperanza spalding, Claire Chase and large orchestra by Felipe Lara
Paper Pianos by Mary
Winner: Adagio (for Wadada Leo Smith) by Tyshawn Sorey
Fiction
Winner: "Night Watch" by Jayne Anne Phillips
"Wednesday's Child" by Yiyun Li
"Same Bed Different Dreams" by Ed Park
Special Citation
Greg Tate (1967 - 2021)
Journalists covering Gaza
2024 Pulitzer Prize Announcement: How to watch
Watch the 2024 Pulitzer Prize announcements here:
2023 winners
Last year's winners included the staff of the Los Angeles Times for breaking news reporting that uncovered racist comments by city officials, and the staff of The Wall Street Journal for investigative reporting on financial conflicts of interest among federal officials.
Austin American-Statesman, part of the USA TODAY Network, was also a finalist in the category of public service for its coverage on law enforcement’s flawed response to the Uvalde shooting that left 19 school children and two teachers dead Texas.
Individual winners included Eli Saslow of The Washington Post for feature writing, Kyle Whitmire of AL.com for commentary and Andrea Long Chu of New York Magazine for criticism.
Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and follow her on X @saman_shafiq7.
