LIST: 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners
The 108th Pulitzer Prize ceremony has awarded the best and brightest in American journalism, literature, and musical composition, with some outlets earning recognition for their coverage of the war in Gaza.
The awards were given at Columbia University on May 6. According to the Pulitzer website, recipients earn cash prizes of $15,000 (~P859,000), with the winner of the Public Service category under the Journalism competition taking home a gold medal.
Prior to the ceremony, the Pulitzer Prize Board released a statement recognizing student journalists covering the campus protests against the war in Gaza.
The New York Times, which won three Pulitzers, was commended for its coverage of the war in Gaza with a prize for International Reporting: "For its wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas’ lethal attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli military’s sweeping, deadly response in Gaza," the award-giving body said.
The Washington Post also earned three prizes for Feature Writing, Commentary, and Editorial Writing.
Last year saw prizes for 23 categories in total, while this year, there are 15 categories for Journalism, seven for Letters and Drama, one for Music, and two Special Citations.
Check out the full list of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners below.
Journalism
- Public Service - ProPublica
- Breaking News Reporting Staff of Lookout, Santa Cruz
- Investigative Reporting - Hannah Dreier of The New York Times
- Explanatory Reporting - Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker
- Local Reporting - Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute
- National Reporting - Staff of Reuters and Staff of The Washington Post
- International Reporting - Staff of The New York Times
- Feature Writing - Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times
- Commentary - Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post
- Criticism - Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times
- Editorial Writing - David E. Hoffman of The Washington Post
- Illustrated Reporting and Commentary - Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker
- Breaking News Photography - Photography Staff of Reuters
- Feature Photography - Photography Staff of Associated Press
- Audio Reporting - Staffs of the Invisible Institute and USG Audio
Letters and Drama
- Fiction - Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips (Knopf)
- Drama - Primary Trust by Eboni Booth
- History - No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggle of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
- Biography - King: A Life by Jonathan Eig(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo (Simon & Schuster)
- Memoir or Autobiography - Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth)
- Poetry - Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som (Georgia Review Books)
- General Nonfiction - A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall (Metropolitan Books)
Music
- Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith) by Tyshawn Sorey, premiered on March 16, 2023 at Atlanta Symphony Hall
Special Citations
- Greg Tate
- Journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza