The Washington Post wins  Pulitzer for capitol riot protection

By Associated Press

NEW YORK: The Washington Post received the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its protection of the Jan. 6 rebellion on the US Capitol, an assault on democracy that was a stunning begin to a tumultuous yr that additionally noticed the top of the United States’ longest conflict, in Afghanistan.

The Post’s intensive reporting, revealed in a complicated interactive collection, discovered quite a few issues and failures in political programs and safety earlier than, throughout and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot within the newspaper’s personal yard.

The “compellingly informed and vividly introduced account” gave the public “a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days,” mentioned Marjorie Miller, administrator of the prizes, in asserting the award.

Five Getty Images photographers had been awarded one of many two prizes in breaking information images for his or her protection of the riot. The different prize awarded in breaking information images went to Los Angeles Times correspondent and photographer Marcus Yam, for work associated to the autumn of Kabul.

The U.S. pullout and resurrection of the Taliban’s grip on Afghanistan permeated throughout classes, with The New York Times successful within the worldwide reporting class for reporting difficult official accounts of civilian deaths from U.S. airstrikes in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Pulitzer Prizes, administered by Columbia University and thought of probably the most prestigious in American journalism, acknowledge work in 15 journalism classes and 7 arts classes. This yr’s awards, which had been live-streamed, honored work produced in 2021. The winner of the general public service award receives a gold medal, whereas winners of every of the opposite classes get $15,000.

The intersection of well being, security and infrastructure performed a distinguished function within the successful initiatives.

The Tampa Bay Times received the investigative reporting award for “Poisoned,” its in-depth look right into a polluting lead manufacturing unit. The Miami Herald took the breaking information award for its work overlaying the lethal Surfside rental tower collapse, whereas The Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune received the native reporting award for “Deadly Fires, Broken Promises,” the watchdog and newspaper’s examination of an absence of enforcement of fireside security requirements.

“As a newsroom, we poured our hearts into the breaking news and the ongoing daily coverage, and subsequent investigative coverage, of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse story,” The Miami Herald’s government editor, Monica Richardson, wrote in an announcement. “It was our story to tell because the people and the families in Surfside who were impacted by this unthinkable tragedy are a part of our community.”

Tampa Bay Times reporters Corey G. Johnson, heart, Rebecca Woolington, second left, and Eli Murray, left, are introduced because the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. ( Photo | AP)

Elsewhere in Florida, Tampa Bay Times’ editor and vice chairman Mark Katches mirrored that sentiment, calling his newspaper’s win “a testament to the importance of a vital local newsroom like the Times.”

The prize for explanatory reporting went to Quanta Magazine, with the board highlighting the work of Natalie Wolchover, for a long-form piece concerning the James Webb house telescope, a $10 billion engineering effort to realize a greater understanding concerning the origins of the universe.

The New York Times additionally received within the nationwide reporting class, for a venture police site visitors stops that resulted in fatalities, and Salamishah Tillet, a contributing critic-at-large on the Times, received the criticism award.

A narrative that used graphics in comedian type to inform the story of Zumrat Dawut, an Uyghur girl who mentioned she was persecuted and detained by the Chinese authorities as a part of systemic abuses in opposition to her group, introduced the illustrated reporting and commentary prize to Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider.

Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic received the award for function writing, for a bit marking the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 assaults by way of a household’s grief.

Melinda Henneberger of The Kansas City Star received for commentary, for columns a couple of retired police detective accused of sexual abuse and people who mentioned they had been assaulted calling for justice.

The editorial writing prize went to Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco of the Houston Chronicle, for items that referred to as for voting reforms and uncovered voter suppression techniques.

The staffs of Futuro Media and PRX took the audio reporting prize for the profile of a person who had been in jail for 30 years and was re-entering the surface world.

The prize for function images went to Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and Danish Siddiqui of Reuters for images of the COVID-19 toll in India. Siddiqui, 38, who received a 2018 Pulitzer in the identical class, was killed in Afghanistan in July whereas documenting combating between Afghan forces and the Taliban.

The Pulitzer Prizes additionally awarded a particular quotation to journalists of Ukraine, acknowledging their “courage, endurance and commitment” in overlaying the continuing Russian invasion that started earlier this yr. Last August, the Pulitzer board granted a particular quotation to Afghan journalists who risked their security to assist produce information tales and pictures from their very own war-torn nation.