Pulitzer Prize 2019

Pulitzer Prize 2019

The prestigious Pulitzer Prize 2019 was announced on 16 April 2019.

The late American singer-songwriter Aretha Franklin was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honour for her contribution to the American music and culture.

REUTERS

Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on 15 April, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

The awards marked the second year in a row that Reuters has won two Pulitzers, the most prestigious prize in American journalism. Reuters has won seven since 2008.

Reuters and the Associated Press were both awarded prizes for international reporting, with AP winning for its coverage of war atrocities in Yemen.

THE COMPLETE LIST OF 2019 PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS

JOURNALISM

• Public service: Staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel
• Breaking-news reporting: Staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Investigative reporting: Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times
• Explanatory reporting: David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of the New York Times
• Local reporting: Staff of the Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.)
• National reporting: Staff of the Wall Street Journal
• International reporting: Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty of the Associated Press, and the staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo
• Feature writing: Hannah Dreier of ProPublica
• Commentary: Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Criticism: Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post
• Editorial writing: Brent Staples of the New York Times
• Editorial cartooning: Darrin Bell, a freelance cartoonist
• Breaking-news photography: Photography staff of Reuters
• Feature photography: Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post
• Special citation: Staff of the Capital Gazette

BOOKS, DRAMA AND MUSIC

• Fiction: “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
• Drama: “Fairview” by Jackie Sibblies Drury
• History: “Frederick Douglass” by David W. Blight
• Biography or autobiography: “The New Negro” by Jeffrey C. Stewart
• Poetry: “Be With” by Forrest Gander
• General nonfiction: “Amity and Prosperity” by Eliza Griswold
• Music: “p r i s m” by Ellen Reid
• Special citation: Aretha Franklin