The New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize in the international reporting category for its “extensive and revealing coverage of the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas in southern Israel,” as well as “the extensive, deadly response by the Israeli military.”
The award for current news photography went to “Reuters” agency for its “rough and sharp” coverage of the October 7 massacre by the Palestinian militant group “Hamas” and Israel’s counteroffensive.
The Pulitzer Prize Board gave special recognition to “journalists and media workers covering the war in the Gaza Strip.” “An extraordinary number of journalists have died under appalling conditions trying to tell the stories of Palestinians and other people in the Gaza Strip. Among the victims, this war has also claimed the lives of poets and writers,” the prize organizers said.
The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murz, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for a speech condemned by the United States, “for the fiery opinion pieces written at great personal risk in a prison cell, warning of the consequences of a dissident in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on the democratic future of his country.” Russia for its war crimes in Ukraine. Kara-Murza’s opinion pieces are published by the “Washington Post” newspaper.
Other award recipients include US journalists who have covered migrant child labor, racial inequality in the justice system and gun violence.
The Pulitzer Prize, named after Joseph Pulitzer, an American journalist and publisher of Hungarian origin, has been awarded since 1917. Winners are selected by a jury based at New York’s Columbia University.
Police were asked to disperse pro-Palestinian protesters during the announcement of the prize winners. Police also prevented media representatives from entering the university and threatened to arrest student-journalists.
15 of the 23 Pulitzer Prize categories are reserved for journalism, from investigative journalism to photography and cartoons.
Pulitzer Prizes are also awarded in literature, music and theater.
In the fiction category, Jane Ann Phillips’ Night Watch, a novel about a mother and daughter during and after the American Civil War, and Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust, about kindness that can win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. improve the life of one person and the whole community.
The documentary book award went to Nathan Thrall for his work “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy”. It tells the story of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, portraying a Palestinian woman whose five-year-old son is killed in a school bus crash when Israeli and Palestinian rescuers cannot reach the crash site in time due to security regulations.
