The Pulitzer Prizes recognising the best of journalism and the arts in 2022 were announced Monday. Here are the winners in the main categories.
Public Service: Mstyslav Chernov, Lori Hinnant, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko, The Associated Press
The quartet of AP reporters won for what the Pulitzers described as courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol about the slaughter of civilians in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. You can find a list of stories the team produced on our Erasing Mariupol page.
Breaking news reporting: The Los Angeles Times
The staff of the Los Angeles Times published a secretly recorded conversation among LA city officials that included racist comments, and then followed up with in-depth coverage of the aftermath.
Investigative reporting: The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal's Capital Assets series analyzed the investments of about 12,000 federal officials and their families between 2016 and 2021. The Journal collected and analyzed data on about 850,000 financial assets and more than 315,000 transactions. This was a staff award.
Explanatory reporting: Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic
The Atlantic's Caitlin Dickerson conducted more than 150 interviews as part of an 18-month investigation into former President Donald Trump's zero tolerance policy of child separation at the border.
Local reporting: John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald and Challen Stephens, AL.com; Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today
There were two winners; they don't share the category, but instead each receive the full prize amount of $15,000. The AL.com, Birmingham, reporters won for a series of stories exposing how the police force in the town of Brookside preyed on residents to inflate revenue. The reporting freed people from jail, the outlet says, and resulted in resignations and new laws.
Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe's The Backchannel series detailed how state officials misspent millions in welfare money that was supposed to help some of the poorest people in the United States. In one case, Wolfe wrote about how former Gov. Phil Bryant and NFL legend Brett Favre worked together to channel at least USD 5 million of the state's welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at University of Southern Mississippi, where Favre's daughter played the sport.
National reporting: Caroline Kitchener, The Washington Post
Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post wrote about the consequences of life after the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, including stories about women trying to navigate the aftermath.
International reporting: The New York Times
The staff of The New York Times won for their coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including an investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the town of Bucha.
Feature writing: Eli Saslow, The Washington Post
Eli Saslow won for what the Pulitzers called evocative individual narratives about people struggling with the pandemic, homelessness, addiction and inequality in the United States. Saslow has since left the Post, joining The New York Times in February. According to the Times announcement, he had been a finalist in this category thrice before and had previously won a Pulitzer for explanatory reporting.
Breaking news photography: The Associated Press
A team of AP photographers won the Pulitzer for unique and urgent images of the first weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
While it was a staff award, AP CEO Daisy Veerasingham wrote that the prize is shared among Rodrigo Abd, Bernat Armangue, Felipe Dana, Nariman El-Mofty, Vadim Ghirda, Evgeniy Maloletka and Emilio Morenatti. See a photo gallery of their work here.
Feature photography: Christina House, Los Angeles Times
Christina House of the Los Angeles Times won for an intimate look into the life of a pregnant 22-year-old woman living on the street in a tent. It was part of a series called Hollywood's Finest, a look at the lives of three women without housing.
Fiction: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver; Trust by Hernan Diaz
The two novels each won the fiction prize. Demon Copperhead is what the Pulitzers called a masterful recasting of David Copperfield,' set in Appalachia. The citation described Trust as riveting and a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.
Drama: English by Sanaz Toossi
Sanaz Toossi's English is a quietly powerful play, the Pulitzers said, centered on four adults preparing for an English exam near Tehran, Iran. The classroom drama explores the ways in which language shapes identity, experience and a sense of belonging in the world.
According to the Pulitzer website, the jury for this prize attends plays in New York and in regional theaters while the award goes to the playwright, the actual productions of the shows are factored in.
