THE Pulitzer Award considered the greatest honor of journalism, announced the winners of the 2025 edition on Monday (5).
Most of them, reports that stood out in 15 categories of journalism are honored, however, the award also honors the best in literature, music and drama, by rewarding a play that is playing.
This year, the American pilot and journalist Chuck Stone (1924-2014) was remembered in the category Special quotes For his “innovative work as a journalist covering the movement for civil rights, his pioneering role as the first black columnist for Philadelphia Daily News – later distributed to almost 100 publications – and being co -founded by the National Association of Black Journalists for 50 years”.
Check out the full list of Pulitzer 2025 Prize winners
Journalism
Public Service: Propublica, for urgent reports by Kavitha Suuna, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz
About pregnant women who died after the doctors postponed urgent care for fear of violating vacancies exceptions about “mother’s life” in states with strict abortion laws.
Last -minute news report: The Washington Post Team
An urgent and enlightening coverage of the attempted murder of then -presidential candidate Donald Trump on July 13, including detailed narrative and precise analysis that joined traditional police reports with audio and video skills.
Investigative report: Reuters team
A bold complaint about “loose regulation” in the United States and abroad that makes Fentanil, one of the world’s deadliest drugs, cheap and widely available to users in the United States.
Explanatory Report: Azam Ahmed, Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times and Matthieu Aikins, which contributed to the writing
A reliable examination of how the United States sowed the seeds of their own failure in Afghanistan, especially supporting murderous militias that took civilians to the Taliban.
Location Report: Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher from The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times
An investigative series that has captured the dimensions of breathtaking of the Fentanil crisis in Baltimore and its disproportionate impact on older black men, creating a sophisticated statistical model that The Banner shared with other newsrooms.
National Report: Team of The Wall Street Journal
By recording Elon Musk’s political and personal changes, including his change to conservative policy, his use of legal and illegal drugs, and his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
International Report: Declan Walsh and The New York Times team
For his investigation revealing of the conflict in Sudan, including reports on foreign influence and the lucrative gold trade that feeds it, and frightening forensic reports of the Sudanese forces responsible for atrocities and hunger.
Articles writing: Mark Warren, in contribution to Esquire
For a sensitive portrait of a Baptist pastor and mayor of a small town who committed suicide after his secret digital life was exposed by a right -wing news site.
Comment: Mosab Abu Toha, in contribution to The New Yorker
For essays on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reports with the intimacy of memories to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel.
Criticism: Alexandra Lange, in written contribution to Bloomberg Citylab
For elegant and comprehensive writing about public spaces for families using skillfully interviews, observations, and analyzes to consider architectural components that allow children and communities to prosper.
Editorial Writing: Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz from The Houston Chronicle
For a powerful series on dangerous train crossings that maintained a harsh focus on people and communities at risk, while the newspaper required urgent action.
Report and Illustrated Comments: Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post
By making insightful comments about powerful people and institutions with dexterity, creativity and courage that led her to leave the news organization after 17 years.
Last minute news photography: Doug Mills from The New York Times
For a sequence of photos of the murder attempt of then -presidential candidate Donald Trump, including an image that captures a bullet passing through the air while he speaks (See below).
Featured photography: Moises Saman, in contribution to The New Yorker
For his haunting black and white images of Syria’s Sednaya prison, which capture the traumatic legacy of Assad’s torture chambers, forcing viewers to confront the cruel horrors faced by prisoners and to contemplate scars in society.
Audio report: The New Yorker team
For the “In The Dark” podcast, a combination of engaging narrative and relentless reports in the face of the United States Army obstacles, a four -year investigation into one of the greatest crimes of the Iraq war: the murder of 25 Iraqi civilians unarmed in Haditha.
Literature
History: “Native Nations: Millenium in North America” by Kathleen Duval (Random House) and “Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” by Edda L. Fields-Black (Oxford University Press)
Regarding the first book -awarded book in the History category, Pulitzer highlights as: a panoramic portrait of American nations and native communities over a thousand years, a vivid and accessible account of their resistance, ingenuity and achievements in the face of conflicts and expropriation.
The work of Fields-Black, the award classifies the work as a rich and revealing account of a slave rebellion that released 756 people enslaved in a single day, intertwining military strategy and family history with the transition from slavery to freedom.
Biography: “Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life” by Jason Roberts (Random House)
A biography written by Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis of Buffon, contemporaries of the eighteenth century who dedicated their lives to identifying and describing the secrets of nature and continuing to influence the way we understand the world.
Memory or Autobiography: “Feeding Ghosts: The Graphic Memoir” by Tessa Hulls (MCD Books/FSG)
A moving work of literary and discovered art, whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women: the author, her mother and grandmother, and the trauma experience transmitted through family stories.
Poetry: “New and Selected Poems” by Marie Howe (WW Norton & Company)
A collection elaborated from decades of work that explores the modern everyday experience in search of evidence of our loneliness, shared mortality and holiness.
Non-Fiction General: “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet dissident Movement” by Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press)
A prodigiously researched and revealing story of Soviet dissent, how repeatedly repressed and resurfaced, populated by a vast cast of brave people dedicated to fighting for threatened freedoms and harsh rights.
Fiction: “James” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
A complete reconsideration of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” that gives way to Jim to illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy and provide a new vision of the search for family and freedom.
Music
This year, the song “Sky Islands” of the American composer Susie Ibarra won the Music pulitzer . By introducing the trail as one of the nominees, the award also classifies the work on ecosystems and biodiversity that “challenges the notion of compositional voice by intertwining the deep musicality and improvisation skills of a soloist as a creative tool.”
In the category, the songs were also present George Lewis’s “The Comet” and “Jim is Still Crowing” , by Jalalu Kalvert Nelson.
Drama
This year, the piece “Purpose” of the American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins He took the prize home. “A piece about the complex dynamics and legacy of an Afro-American upper-class Afro-American family, whose patriarch was a key figure in the civil rights movement,” in which Pulitzer classifies as a skillful drama and comedy mixing as different generations define the inheritance.
The play that is playing at Helen Hayes Theater in New York, United States still faced “Oh, Mary!” Cole School and “The Ally”, by Itamar Moses.
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