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The Washington Post’s Caroline Kitchener received what is probably the most famous journalistic award in the world for her reporting on a woman who gave birth to twins because of restrictions on abortion rights in the United States.
The New York Times won Monday in the international reporting category “for its unflinching coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including an eight-month investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the city of Bucha.” The Associated Press (AP) honored the jury for its visual and written reporting from the heavily contested Ukrainian city of Mariupol, long after other news organizations had left the place.
The 107th Pulitzer Prizes were announced by Administrator Marjorie Miller. Fifteen of the Pulitzer Prize’s 23 categories are dedicated to journalistic work, from investigative stories to photos to cartoons. The award is also given for literature, music and theatre. The winners are determined by a jury based at New York’s Columbia University.
Barbara Kingsolver (“Demon Copperhead”) and Hernan Diaz (“Trust”) won in the novel category. In music, the Pulitzer went to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels for their opera Omar.
However, one piece of journalistic research that was treated as a favourite, and which caused a stir around the world last year, came up empty: the article in “Politico” magazine about the overturning of the “Roe v. Wade” landmark judgment on abortion. With the help of an internal document from the otherwise secretive Supreme Court, “Politico” managed to report on the intended decision weeks before publication. The article had sparked outrage from many people around the world and prompted an internal search for the leak in the US Supreme Court.
Instead, the “LA Times” won in the Breaking News category for research on racism among local politicians in Los Angeles.
Source: Nachrichten
