THE 2018 PRIZE WINNERS Columbia University today announced the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation oF the Pulitzer Prize Board. JOURNALISM BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY Ryan Kelly oF The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va. PUBLIC SERVICE FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY The New York Times and The New Yorker Photography StaFF oF Reuters BREAKING NEWS REPORTING StafF of The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, CaliF. LETTERS, DRAMA AND MUSIC INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING StafF of The Washington Post FICTION EXPLANATORY REPORTING Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Lee Boudreaux Books/ StafFs of The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network Little, Brown and Company) LOCAL REPORTING DRAMA StafF of The Cincinnati Enquirer Cost of Living by Martyna Majok NATIONAL REPORTING HISTORY StafFs oF The New York Times and The Washington Post The GulF: The Making oF an American Sea by Jack E. Davis INTERNATIONAL REPORTING (Liveright/W.W. Norton) Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato BIOGRAPHY of Reuters Prairie Fires: The American Dreams oF Laura Ingalls FEATURE WRITING Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books) Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Freelance reporter, GQ POETRY COMMENTARY HalF-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart John Archibald of Alabama Media Group, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Birmingham, Ala. GENERAL NONFICTION CRITICISM Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black Jerry Saltz of New York magazine America by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) EDITORIAL WRITING MUSIC Andie Dominick of The Des Moines Register Damn. by Kendrick Lamar, recording released on April 14, 2017. EDITORIAL CARTOONING Jake Halpern, freelance writer, and Michael Sloan, freelance cartoonist, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University, 709 Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 THE 2018 PRIZES IN JOURNALISM 1. PUBLIC SERVICE photography, video and social media platforms, to bring For a distinguished example of meritorious puBlic service clarity to its readers — in real time and in suBsequent by a newspaper, magazine or news site through the use of in-depth reporting. its journalistic resources, including the use of stories, editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics, videos, Also nominated as finalists in this category were: the dataBases, multimedia or interactive presentations or Staff of Houston Chronicle for comprehensive and other visual material, a gold medal. dynamic coverage of Hurricane Harvey that captured real-time developments of the unprecedented scale of Awarded to The New York Times, for reporting led by the disaster and provided crucial information to its Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and The New Yorker, for community during the storm and its aftermath; and the reporting By Ronan Farrow, for explosive, impactful Staff of The New York Times for authoritative and journalism that exposed powerful and wealthy sexual innovative coverage of the deadliest mass shooting in predators, including allegations against one of modern American history at a concert in Las Vegas, Hollywood’s most influential producers, Bringing them using poignant storytelling as well as groundbreaking to account for long-suppressed allegations of coercion, video analysis and motion graphics to illustrate how the brutality and victim silencing, thus spurring a worldwide attack unfolded. reckoning aBout sexual aBuse of women. 3. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Also nominated as a finalist in this category was: The For a distinguished example of investigative reporting, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. for courageous, using any available journalistic tool, Fifteen thousand revelatory journalism that exposed a state government’s dollars ($15,000). decades–long “oBsession with secrecy,” intended to shield executive decisions and suppress transparency Awarded to the Staff of The Washington Post for and accountability in law enforcement agencies, child purposeful and relentless reporting that changed the welfare services and other sectors of the government. course of a Senate race in AlaBama By revealing a candidate’s alleged past sexual harassment of teenage 2. BREAKING NEWS REPORTING girls and suBsequent efforts to undermine the For a distinguished example of local, state or national journalism that exposed it. reporting of Breaking news that, as quickly as possiBle, captures events accurately as they occur, and, as time Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Carol passes, illuminates, provides context and expands upon MarBin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch of Miami Herald for a the initial coverage, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). sweeping investigation of Florida’s juvenile justice system, prompted By the tragic death of a foster child Awarded to the Staff of The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, and told in heartBreaking detail, that spurred legislative Calif. for lucid and tenacious coverage of historic reform intended to Better protect that state’s young wildfires that ravaged the city of Santa Rosa and Sonoma charges; and Tim Eberly of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, County and expertly utilizing an array of tools, including Va. for compelling reporting that resulted in changes to The Pulitzer Prizes, ColumBia University, 709 Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 THE 2018 PRIZES IN JOURNALISM Virginia’s parole board system, which operated for Awarded to the Staff of The Cincinnati Enquirer for a decades Behind closed doors, designating first-time riveting and insightful narrative and video documenting convicts as repeat offenders under the state’s three- seven days of greater Cincinnati's heroin epidemic, strikes law and condemning them to longer sentences revealing how the deadly addiction has ravaged families than some murderers, with no hope of parole. and communities. 4. EXPLANATORY REPORTING Also nominated as finalists in this category were: the For a distinguished example of explanatory reporting Staff of The Boston Globe for a poignant and illuminating that illuminates a significant and complex suBject, exploration of the city's fraught history of race relations demonstrating mastery of the suBject, lucid writing and that went Beyond the anecdotal, using data to clear presentation, using any availaBle journalistic tool, demonstrate how racism infiltrates every institution and Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). aspect of city life; and Jason grotto and Sandhya KamBhampati of ProPuBlica Illinois and Ray Long of Awarded to the Staffs of The Arizona Republic and USA Chicago Tribune for deep reporting that included Today Network for vivid and timely reporting that analysis of more than 100 million electronic tax records masterfully combined text, video, podcasts and virtual to show how systemic favoritism and political neglect reality to examine, from multiple perspectives, the influenced assessments at the expense of the working difficulties and unintended consequences of fulfilling class and poor in majority Black and Latino President Trump's pledge to construct a wall along the neighborhoods. U.S. Border with Mexico. 6. NATIONAL REPORTING Also nominated as finalists in this category were: For a distinguished example of reporting on national Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times for an affairs, using any available journalistic tool, Fifteen amBitious series that explained with verve, lyricism and thousand dollars ($15,000). exceptional clarity the complex impact of climate change on cities around the world; and the Staff of ProPuBlica Awarded to the Staffs of The New York Times and The for a soBering examination of why the United States has Washington Post for deeply sourced, relentlessly one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the reported coverage in the puBlic interest that developed world, and why at least half are preventaBle. dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 election and its 5. LOCAL REPORTING connections to the Trump campaign, the president- For a distinguished example of reporting on significant elect’s transition team and his eventual administration. issues of local concern, demonstrating originality and (The New York Times entry, suBmitted in this category, community expertise, using any availaBle journalistic was moved into contention By the Board and then jointly tool, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). awarded the prize.) The Pulitzer Prizes, ColumBia University, 709 Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 THE 2018 PRIZES IN JOURNALISM Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Amy 8. FEATURE WRITING Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter of Reveal from the For distinguished feature writing giving prime Center for Investigative Reporting for poignantly consideration to quality of writing, originality and exposing a shocking practice that took root in Oklahoma, concision, using any availaBle journalistic tool, Fifteen Arkansas and other states in which, under the guise of thousand dollars ($15,000). criminal justice reform, judges steered defendants into drug rehaBs that were little more than lucrative work Awarded to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter, camps for private industry; and Brett Murphy of USA GQ for an unforgettaBle portrait of murderer Dylann Today Network for a graceful, data-driven narrative Roof, using a unique and powerful mix of reportage, populated by the truckers who transport goods from first-person reflection and analysis of the historical and America’s ports — spirited characters exploited By some cultural forces Behind his killing of nine people inside of the country’s largest and Best-known companies.