 "A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey, in September 24, 2015")
Reuters and The New York Times shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for images of the migrant crisis in Europe and West Asia.
AT A GLANCE
The Associated Press
Pulitzer Prize for public service
Seafood From Slaves series exposed slavery and vicious abuse in the Southeast Asia fishing trade, leading to the release of 2,000 captives and broad reforms in the United States
Staff of The Washington Post
National reporting, for its revelatory database detailing fatal shootings by police officers nationwide, idetifying 990 fatal shootings nationwide in 2015, far more than ever recorded by the federal government.
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker
Feature Writing, "The Really Big One," about the potential for a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
Alissa J Rubin,
Paris bureau chief of The New York Times,
International reporting, for a deep examination of the abuse and injustice faced by women in Afghanistan
Emily Nussbaum,
The New Yorker
Criticism, for her work as the magazine's television critic since 2011.
Jack Ohman,
The Sacramento Bee
Editorial Cartooning
Viet Thanh Nguyen,
Fiction, for The Sympathizer, a book on Vietnam War
Joby Warrick,
Non-fiction, for Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
