Washington Post awarded Pulitzer Prize for public-service journalism
The Washington Post has won the 2022 Pulitzer prize for public service journalism, for its coverage of the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. A US Senate committee has concluded that seven persons´ deaths were related to the riot and at that time US president Donald Trump was accused of inciting violence to overturn the election of Joe Biden as the new president of the United States. Pulitzer.org/media.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. The 19-member Pulitzer Board is composed of leading journalists or news executives from media outlets across the U.S., as well as five academics or persons in the arts. It is considered the most prestigious prizes in US journalism, recognizing work in 15 journalism categories and seven arts categories.
The administrator of the Pulitzer prizes, Majorie Miller said the Washington Post’s coverage was “compellingly told and vividly presented account of the assault on Washington … providing the public with a thorough understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days”.
Sally Buzzbee, executive editor of the Washington Post was quoted by her paper saying: There is nothing more central to the American experiment than democracy.”
“In 2021, that democracy came under attack from within. The challenge for the fourth estate was clear: We were no longer just a watchdog of the institutions and elected leaders of our democracy, but an indispensable defender of democracy itself”.
The Washington Post is owned by Nash Holdings, a company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, that bought the paper in 2013 for USD 250 million. The paper´s motto is “Democracy Dies in Darkness”.
The Pulitzer prizes also awarded a special citation to journalists from Ukraine, acknowledging their “courage, endurance and commitment” in covering the Russian invasion.
The 2022 Pulitzer Prize winners are:
Journalism
Public Service
The Washington Post
Breaking News Reporting
Staff of the Miami Herald
Investigative Reporting
Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington and Eli Murray of the Tampa Bay Times
Explanatory Reporting
Staff of Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y., notably Natalie Wolchover
Local Reporting
Madison Hopkins of the Better Government Association and Cecilia Reyes of the Chicago Tribune
National Reporting
Staff of The New York Times
International Reporting
Staff of The New York Times
Feature Writing
Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic
Commentary
Melinda Henneberger of The Kansas City Star
Criticism
Salamishah Tillet, contributing critic at large, The New York Times
Editorial Writing
Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco of the Houston Chronicle
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider, New York, N.Y.
Breaking News Photography
Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times
Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry of Getty Images
Feature Photography
Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters
Audio Reporting
Staffs of Futuro Media, New York, N.Y. and PRX, Boston, Mass.
Books, Drama and Music
Fiction
“The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family,” by Joshua Cohen (New York Review Books)
Drama
“Fat Ham,” by James Ijames
History
“Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America,” by Nicole Eustace (Liveright/Norton)
“Cuba: An American History,” by Ada Ferrer (Scribner)
Biography
“Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South,” by the late Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly (Bloomsbury)
Poetry
“frank: sonnets,” by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction
“Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City,” by Andrea Elliott (Random House)
Music
“Voiceless Mass,” by Raven Chacon
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