New York Times Wins 3 Pulitzer Prizes
The Washington Post won the award for public service, considered the most prestigious of the Pulitzers, for its coverage of the Trump administration’s overhaul of federal agencies.nytimes.com/…026/05/04/business/media/pulitzer-pr…
A photo that was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning entry by Saher Alghorra, a contributor to The New York Times, in the breaking news photo category. It showed a child wounded in Gaza City being transferred to a hospital in April last year.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York Times
By Katie Robertson
May 4, 2026Updated 4:32 p.m. ET
The New York Times won three Pulitzer Prize awards on Monday, including for an investigation into how President Trump is profiting from his deal-making, and news photography documenting starvation and destruction in Gaza. The Times also won for opinion writing, for columns by M. Gessen analyzing the rise of authoritarianism.
The Athletic, the sports site owned by The New York Times Company, won in the audio category for the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out.” The podcast is produced by Meadowlark Media and licensed by The Athletic.
Reuters and The Washington Post each won two awards. The Post won the prestigious public service prize for its exhaustive coverage of the Trump administration’s overhaul of federal agencies, including the extent of job and funding cuts and how they were reshaping the country.
FULL LIST OF WINNERS
Read the complete list of Pulitzer winners and finalists.
The Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917, are given out annually by Columbia University for excellence in journalism, literature and the arts. The journalism winners are decided by juries from a pool of more than a thousand entries.
The breaking news reporting prize went to the staff of The Minnesota Star Tribune for coverage of a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis that left two children dead and injured many more.
The staff of The Times won for investigative reporting for articles that revealed the extent to which Mr. Trump and his inner circle were enriching themselves through national security dealings.
The explanatory reporting award was given to Susie Neilson, Megan Fan Munce and Sara DiNatale of The San Francisco Chronicle for “Burned,” a series that uncovered the faulty algorithms, used by insurers, that devastated Californians who lost their homes to wildfires.
The Pulitzers reintroduced the beat reporting category this year after 20 years. Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham of Reuters received the award for their reporting that showed how Meta tolerated ads for scams and banned products to protect its revenue. Reuters was also awarded the prize for national reporting. The staff members involved, including Ned Parker, Linda So, Peter Eisler and Mike Spector, examined how the president expanded his executive power and sought retribution against his political enemies.
Another new category this year was opinion writing, instead of the previous editorial writing and commentary categories. M. Gessen of The Times was given the award for a collection of reported essays that mixed history and the author’s personal experience in their native Russia to examine the actions of the Trump administration.
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The local reporting prize went to two winners. The staff of The Chicago Tribune was recognized for coverage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s immigration sweep throughout the city. And Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror, along with Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica, were recognized for a series that showed how Connecticut’s towing laws have led to abuses by towing companies against drivers.
Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Yael Grauer of The Associated Press were given the international reporting prize for an investigation that showed how governments around the world are using American-made surveillance technology for mass surveillance.
The feature writing prize went to Aaron Parsley of Texas Monthly for his personal account of surviving the Central Texas floods in July that destroyed his home and took the life of his nephew.
Mark Lamster of The Dallas Morning News was awarded the criticism prize for his architecture criticism, which the Pulitzer Prize Board said used “wit and expertise to amplify his opinions and advocate for city residents.”
The illustrated reporting and commentary prize went to Anand RK, Suparna Sharma and Natalie Obiko Pearson of Bloomberg for “trAPPed,” a graphic novel that showed how digital scams are targeting wealthy Indians using the threat of arrests and forcing them to comply with bizarre conditions.
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Saher Alghorra, a contributor to The Times, received the breaking news photography prize for a series of images that depicted the widespread food deprivation for Palestinians in Gaza as a result of the war with Israel.
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Jahi Chikwendiu, a former staff photographer at The Washington Post, won the feature photography prize for a photo essay showing a young man with colon cancer welcoming his firstborn child as his illness took hold.
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The audio reporting prize, which was introduced as a Pulitzer category in 2020, went to the staff of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” for an investigation into allegations that the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented the National Basketball Association’s salary cap by paying a star player extra money through a separate entity. The podcast became part of the Athletic Podcast Network in September in a licensing deal.
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The Pulitzer Board awarded a special citation to Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald for her work in 2017 and 2018 that exposed how prosecutors shielded the financier Jeffrey Epstein despite his systematic abuse of young women. Her reporting led to his arrest in 2019.
The board also presents Pulitzer Prizes for books, drama and music. This year’s winner for fiction was “Angel Down,” by Daniel Kraus. The novel, about World War I, is told in one long sentence.
The prize for drama was awarded to “Liberation,” by Bess Wohl, a play about a consciousness-raising group in the 1970s with characters that were inspired by interviews the playwright conducted with second-wave feminists.
The history prize went to “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution,” by Jill Lepore, which looks at how and why the Constitution is difficult to amend, and at failed attempts that have been made.
“Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution,” by Amanda Vaill, was awarded the biography prize. The book looks at America’s founding era through the lives of the Schuyler sisters and their influence.
The memoir prize was given to “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” by Yiyun Li, who wrote about her grief in the aftermath of one son’s suicide, six years after the suicide of his older brother.
The poetry award went to “Ars Poeticas,” by Juliana Spahr, a collection of meditations on living through dark times, touching on everything from climate change to the rise of the alt-right.
“There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” by Brian Goldstone, was awarded the general nonfiction prize. The book examines the increasing existence of people who have jobs but cannot afford shelter, following the lives of some of them in Atlanta.
The music prize was given to “Picaflor: A Future Myth,” by Gabriela Lena Frank, a modern symphonic work that premiered at Marian Anderson Hall in Philadelphia and is based on a story from Incan mythology.
Katie Robertson covers the media industry for The Times. Email: katie.robertson@nytimes.com