Pulitzer Prizes 2023 Announced: Check The Complete List Of Winners

Pulitzer Prizes 2023

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, with four of the 16 awards for journalism across 15 categories going to local outlets reporting on corruption among local officials. The Pulitzers are regarded as the highest honor that a U.S.-based journalist or organization can receive. The awards were announced by Marjorie Miller, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. There are 22 Pulitzer categories. In 21 of those categories the winners receive a $15,000 cash award and a certificate.

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2023 Pulitzer Prizes: JOURNALISM

Category	Winner	Description
Public Service	Associated Press, for the work of Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko and Lori Hinnant	Courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Breaking News Reporting	Staff of the Los Angeles Times	For revealing a secretly recorded conversation among city officials that included racist comments, followed by coverage of the rapidly resulting turmoil and deeply reported pieces that delved further into the racial issues affecting local politics.
Investigative Reporting	Staff of The Wall Street Journal	For sharp accountability reporting on financial conflicts of interest among officials at 50 federal agencies, revealing those who bought and sold stocks they regulated and other ethical violations by individuals charged with safeguarding the public’s interest.
Explanatory Reporting	Caitlin Dickerson of The Atlantic	For deeply reported and compelling accounting of the Trump administration policy that forcefully separated migrant children from their parents, resulting in abuses that have persisted under the current administration.
Local Reporting	Anna Wolfe of Mississippi Today, Ridgeland, Miss.	For reporting that revealed how a former Mississippi governor used his office to steer millions of state welfare dollars to benefit his family and friends, including NFL quarterback Brett Favre. John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald and Challen Stephens of AL.com, Birmingham For a series exposing how the police force in the town of Brookside preyed on residents to inflate revenue, coverage that prompted the resignation of the police chief, four new laws and a state audit.
National Reporting	Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post	For unflinching reporting that captured the complex consequences of life after Roe v. Wade, including the story of a Texas teenager who gave birth to twins after new restrictions denied her an abortion.
International Reporting	Staff of The New York Times	For their unflinching coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including an eight-month investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the town of Bucha and the Russian unit responsible for the killings.
Feature Writing	Eli Saslow of The Washington Post	For evocative individual narratives about people struggling with the pandemic, homelessness, addiction and inequality that collectively form a sharply-observed portrait of contemporary America.
Commentary	Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham	For measured and persuasive columns that document how Alabama’s Confederate heritage still colors the present with racism and exclusion, told through tours of its first capital, its mansions and monuments–and through the history that has been omitted.
Criticism	Andrea Long Chu of New York magazine	For book reviews that scrutinize authors as well as their works, using multiple cultural lenses to explore some of society’s most fraught topics.
Editorial Writing	Nancy Ancrum, Amy Driscoll, Luisa Yanez, Isadora Rangel and Lauren Costantino of the Miami Herald	For a series of editorials on the failure of Florida public officials to deliver on many taxpayer-funded amenities and services promised to residents over decades.
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary	Mona Chalabi, contributor, The New York Times	For striking illustrations that combine statistical reporting with keen analysis to help readers understand the immense wealth and economic power of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Breaking News Photography	Photography Staff of Associated Press	For unique and urgent images from the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including the devastation of Mariupol after other news organizations left, victims of the targeting of civilian infrastructure and the resilience of the Ukrainian people who were able to flee.
Feature Photography	Christina House of the Los Angeles Times	For an intimate look into the life of a pregnant 22-year-old woman living on the street in a tent–images that show
Audio Reporting	Staff of Gimlet Media, notably Connie Walker	Whose investigation into her father’s troubled past revealed a larger story of abuse of hundreds of Indigenous children at an Indian residential school in Canada, including other members of Walker’s extended family, a personal search for answers expertly blended with rigorous investigative reporting.

2023 Pulitzer Prizes: BOOKS, DRAMA & MUSIC

Category	Title and Author
Fiction	“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
Fiction	“Trust” by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)
Drama	“English” by Sanaz Toossi
History	“Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power” by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)
Biography	“G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century” by Beverly Gage (Viking)
Memoir or Autobiography	“Stay True” by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)
Poetry	“Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020” by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
General Nonfiction	“His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking) (Moved by the Board from the Biography category.)
Music	“Omar” by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

History of The Pulitzer Prizes

The annual Pulitzer awards, first presented in 1917, are the most prestigious honors in U.S. journalism. They are named for newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who died in 1911. In his will, Pulitzer left money to create the prizes and establish a journalism school at Columbia University. Here is a brief history of the Pulitzer Prizes:

Year	Category	Description
1917	Journalism	The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in the categories of journalism, literature, and music. The journalism prizes were for public service, editorial writing, and reporting.
1918	Drama	A fourth category, drama, was added to the Pulitzer Prizes.
1922	Biography	The biography category was added.
1926	History	The history category was added.
1930	Novel	The novel category was added.
1942	Music	The music category was expanded to include any American music composition.
1948	Poetry	The poetry category was added.
1950	International Reporting	The international reporting category was added.
1962	General Non-Fiction	The general non-fiction category was added.
1968	Feature Photography	The feature photography category was added.
1979	National Reporting	The national reporting category was added.
1980	Explanatory Journalism	The explanatory journalism category was added.
1991	Spot News Photography	The spot news photography category was added.
1992	Commentary	The commentary category was added.
2000	Investigative Reporting	The investigative reporting category was added.
2007	Local Reporting	The local reporting category was split into two categories, for newspapers with circulations below and above 50,000.
2010	Audio Reporting	The audio reporting category was added, for radio and online podcasts.
2017	Criticism	The criticism category was added.
2020	Audio Reporting	The audio reporting category was expanded to include audio books and other forms of spoken-word entertainment.

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