The Washington Post received the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its protection of the Jan. 6 rebellion on the US Capitol, an assault on democracy that was a surprising begin to a tumultuous yr that additionally noticed the tip of the United States’ longest conflict, in Afghanistan.
Protestors climbing the Capitol Hill constructing throughout the siege on January 6, 2022. (AP Photo)
The Post’s in depth reporting, printed in a classy interactive sequence, discovered quite a few issues and failures in political programs and safety earlier than, throughout and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot within the newspaper’s personal yard.
The “compellingly told and vividly presented account” gave the general public “a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days,” stated Marjorie Miller, administrator of the prizes, in asserting the award.
Five Getty Images photographers had been awarded one of many two prizes in breaking information pictures for his or her protection of the riot.
The different prize awarded in breaking information pictures went to Los Angeles Times correspondent and photographer Marcus Yam, for work associated to the autumn of Kabul.
Taliban fighters patrol inside town of Kandahar, southwest Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2021
The US pullout and resurrection of the Taliban’s grip on Afghanistan permeated throughout classes, with The New York Times successful within the worldwide reporting class for reporting difficult official accounts of civilian deaths from US airstrikes in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pulitzer Prizes, administered by Columbia University and thought of probably the most prestigious in American journalism, acknowledge work in 15 journalism classes and 7 arts classes. This yr’s awards, which had been livestreamed, honored work produced in 2021. The winner of the general public service award receives a gold medal, whereas winners of every of the opposite classes get $15,000.
The intersection of well being, security and infrastructure performed a distinguished function among the many successful initiatives.
The Tampa Bay Times received the investigative reporting award for “Poisoned,” its in-depth look right into a polluting lead manufacturing unit. The Miami Herald took the breaking information award for its work overlaying the lethal Surfside rental tower collapse, whereas The Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune received the native reporting award for “Deadly Fires, Broken Promises,” the watchdog and newspaper’s examination of an absence of enforcement of fireplace security requirements.
“As a newsroom, we poured our hearts into the breaking news and the ongoing daily coverage, and subsequent investigative coverage, of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse story,” The Miami Herald’s government editor, Monica Richardson, wrote in an announcement. “It was our story to tell because the people and the families in Surfside who were impacted by this unthinkable tragedy are a part of our community.”
Elsewhere in Florida, Tampa Bay Times’ editor and vice chairman Mark Katches mirrored that sentiment, calling his newspaper’s win “a testament to the importance of a vital local newsroom like the Times.”
The prize for explanatory reporting went to Quanta Magazine, with the board highlighting the work of Natalie Wolchover, for a long-form piece concerning the James Webb house telescope, a $10 billion engineering effort to achieve a greater understanding concerning the origins of the universe.
The New York Times additionally received within the nationwide reporting class, for a mission police site visitors stops that led to fatalities, and Salamishah Tillet, a contributing critic-at-large on the Times, received the criticism award.
A narrative that used graphics in comedian type to inform the story of Zumrat Dawut, a Uyghur lady who stated she was persecuted and detained by the Chinese authorities as a part of systemic abuses in opposition to her group, introduced the illustrated reporting and commentary prize to Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider.
Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic received the award for function writing, for a chunk marking the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 assaults via a household’s grief.
Melinda Henneberger of The Kansas City Star received for commentary, for columns a few retired police detective accused of sexual abuse and those that stated they had been assaulted calling for justice.
The editorial writing prize went to Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco of the Houston Chronicle, for items that known as for voting reforms and uncovered voter suppression ways.
The staffs of Futuro Media and PRX took the audio reporting prize for the profile of a person who had been in jail for 30 years and was re-entering the skin world.
The prize for function pictures went to Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and Danish Siddiqui of Reuters for images of the COVID-19 toll in India. Siddiqui, 38, who received a 2018 Pulitzer in the identical class, was killed in Afghanistan in July whereas documenting preventing between Afghan forces and the Taliban.
This photograph by Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, supplied by Columbia University, reveals a ‘Naga Sadhu,’ or Hindu holy man, inserting a masks throughout his face earlier than getting into the Ganges river throughout the conventional Shahi Snan, on the Kumbh Mela pageant in Haridwar, India, April 12, 2021.
The Pulitzer Prizes additionally awarded a particular quotation to journalists of Ukraine, acknowledging their “courage, endurance and commitment” in overlaying the continuing Russian invasion that started earlier this yr. Last August, the Pulitzer board granted a particular quotation to Afghan journalists who risked their security to assist produce information tales and pictures from their very own war-torn nation.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
