2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners
PUBLIC SERVICE
The New York Times
The Pulitzer committee honored The New York Times with the prestigious public service award for its “prescient and sweeping” coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly for filling “a data vacuum that helped local governments, health care providers, businesses and individuals to be better prepared and protected.” Read the coverage here.
Finalists ProPublica; The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky.
BREAKING NEWS
Staff of The Star Tribune of Minneapolis
The Star Tribune won the award for its “authoritative and nuanced” coverage of the murder of George Floyd.
Finalists Staff of The Courier-Journal, of Louisville, Ky.; Helen Branswell, Andrew Joseph and the late Sharon Begley of STAT, Boston
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy of The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe won the investigative reporting award for its extensive coverage of dangerous truck drivers and the failure of state governments to keep them off the road.
Finalists Dake Kang and the staff of The Associated Press; Margie Mason and Robin McDowell of The Associated Press
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters; Ed Yong of The Atlantic
The Pulitzer committee honored a team of Reuters reporters for their coverage of an arcane legal doctrine that “shields police who use excessive force from prosecution.” The science reporter Ed Yong won the award for his coverage of the pandemic.
Finalists Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek of BuzzFeed News
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/business/pulitzer-prize-winners.html