The FBI Searched a Washington Post Reporter’s Home. She Is Now a Pulitzer Prize Winner.

At 6:05 a.m. on Jan. 14, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation converged at the door of Hannah Natanson, a reporter at The Washington Post. They had a search warrant and entered her home, seizing her iPhone and other devices.

For the previous year, Ms. Natanson had reported on the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal work force and cut programs. The F.B.I. search was part of an investigation into a government contractor who the Justice Department said had leaked her classified information.

The event put Ms. Natanson’s name among the targets of the Trump administration’s aggressive campaign against news organizations. There was no precedent for the Justice Department’s searching a reporter’s home in connection with a national security leak investigation, according to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

But on Monday, Ms. Natanson was recognized for something else: a Pulitzer Prize. Her work anchored a package of articles for The Post that won the public service award, considered the most prestigious Pulitzer Prize, for what the Pulitzer Board described as “piercing the veil of secrecy” of the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal government.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/media/hannah-natanson-washington-post-pulitzer.html