NEW YORK: The Washington Post and New York Times newspapers and the AP news agency were awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for their reporting on US abortion rights restrictions and the Ukraine war, reported German news agency (dpa).
Caroline Kitchener of the Post received the world’s most famous journalistic award 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 in the international reporting category “for its intrepid coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including an eight-month investigation of Ukrainian deaths in the town of Butcha”. AP was honoured by the jury for its reporting in pictures and words from the heavily contested Ukrainian city of Mariupol – long after other news organisations had left the scene.
An AP photograph of a heavily pregnant wounded woman being evacuated from a Mariupol maternity hospital that had been attacked by the Russians won this year’s World Press Photo of the Year, which was awarded last month. The woman and her unborn baby died from the attack.
The 107th Pulitzer Prizes were announced by chief administrator Marjorie Miller. Fifteen of the 23 categories of the Pulitzer Prizes are reserved for journalistic works, from investigative stories to photographs and cartoons.
The award is also given for literature as well as music and theatre. The winners are chosen by a jury based at New York’s Columbia University.
In the category of novels, Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ and Hernan Diaz’s ‘Trust’ won. In music, the Pulitzer went to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels for their opera ‘Omar’.
However, Politico’s major, much-discussed scoop last year, when the online news organisation reported on a draft opinion by US Supreme Court Judge Samuel Alito, saying he and the court were set to overturn the landmark Roe V. Wade abortion ruling, came away empty handed.
The report on the intended decision, whose final form did not vary much from the draft, sparked outrage among many people worldwide and resulted in an internal search for the leak at the court.
But in the category of Breaking News, the LA Times won instead for an investigation into racism among local politicians in Los Angeles. – BERNAMA-dpa
