Washington Post, NY Times win Pulitzers

The Pulitzer Prizes honoured The Washington Post for hard-hitting reporting on Trump

The Pulitzer Prizes on Monday honoured The Washington Post for hard-hitting reporting on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and The New York Times for revealing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s covert power grab, praising their probing of powerful people despite a hostile climate for the news media. The Daily News of New York and ProPublica, a web-based platform specialising in investigative journalism, won the prize for public service journalism for coverage of New York police abuses that forced mostly poor minorities from their homes.

Here is a look at this year’s winners:

Journalism

Public Service

New York Daily News and ProPublica

Investigative Reporting

Eric Eyre of Charleston Gazette-Mail, Charleston, WV

Explanatory Reporting

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and Miami Herald

National Reporting

The New York Times staff

Feature Writing

C J Chivers of The New York Times

Commentary

Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal

Editorial Writing

Art Cullen of The Storm Lake Times, Storm Lake, IA

Editorial Cartooning

Jim Morin of Miami Herald

Breaking News Photography

Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer

Feature Photography

E Jason Wambsgans of Chicago Tribune

LETTERS, DRAMA & MUSIC Fiction

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead; Doubleday

Drama

Sweat by Lynn Nottage

Biography or Autobiography

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar; Random House

Poetry

Olio by Tyehimba Jess; Wave Books

General Non-fiction

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond; Crown

Music

Angel’s Bone by Du Yun

Sources: Pulitzer.org, Reuters