May 9, 2022

Times Wins Four Pulitzer Prizes

The Times won the International Reporting, National Reporting and Criticism journalism awards, and the General Nonfiction book award. It also had six finalists, in Public Service, Breaking News, International Reporting, Breaking News Photography and Commentary.

The New York Times won four 2022 Pulitzer Prizes. The winners for the 2022 awards were:

International Reporting

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— The staff of The Times won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for revealing the hidden casualties in thousands of American military airstrikes. Successive administrations had sold a nation weary of “forever wars” on replacing boots on the ground with “the most precise air campaign in history.” We revealed its legacy: missed targets, disproportionate destruction and civilian deaths. Afterward the Pentagon  announced reforms.

National Reporting

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— The staff of The Times won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for revealing the killings of hundreds of unarmed motorists across the country after vehicle stops for nonviolent offenses. Few officers are punished; the blame is often deflected to the victim. We also scrutinized in-custody deaths, piercing a curtain of obscurity around autopsy records. We were the first news organization to expose the use of sickle cell trait to falsely account for in-custody deaths of Black people.

Criticism

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— Salamishah Tillet, a contributing critic at large and a professor at Rutgers University, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, for columns examining race and Black perspectives as the arts and entertainment world responded to the Black Lives Matter moment with new works.

General Nonfiction

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— Andrea Elliott won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City,” the story of Dasani, a girl in a New York City homeless shelter whom Elliott had introduced to Times readers almost a decade ago and continued to follow. Andrea also won a Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing 15 years ago for her portrait of an immigrant imam striving to find his way and serve his faithful in America.

The Times also had six finalists:

— The staff of The New York Times, in Public Service, for reporting that exposed the vast civilian toll of U.S.-led airstrikes, challenging official accounts of American military engagements in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

— The staff of The Times for Breaking News Reporting, for coverage of the Capitol Riot. On Jan. 6, 2021, 39 million readers turned to us to understand what was happening. Ever since The Times has chronicled the fallout from the insurrection;

— The staff of The Times for International Reporting, for coverage of the collapse of the Afghanistan government. We have covered the war in Afghanistan for more than 20 years. But 2021 was a year like no other — amid the chaos, we revealed misinformed drone strikes and documented the military’s withdrawal, all while our journalists risked their lives;

— The staff of The Times for International Reporting, for coverage of the assassination of Haiti’s president. We investigated the murder more than the country’s leaders did, with the first eyewitness account, reports of suspects’ meetings, and an exclusive that the president’s protector was a drug trafficking suspect;

— A photographer in Myanmar, whom we will not identify to protect him, in Breaking News Photography, for coverage of the uprisings there against a brutal military, at great personal risk;

— Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist and Opinion columnist for The Times and earlier The Atlantic, in Commentary, for identifying the failings of the international health system, and in particular public agencies, in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

For a complete list of winners, click here.

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