NEW YORK –
The prestigious Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism was awarded Monday to ProPublica for its “groundbreaking” reporting that revealed how billionaires wooed Supreme Court justices with gifts and trips, and The Associated Press was honored in the photography category. notable for its coverage of immigration to the United States through Latin America.
The public service award honored the work of ProPublica’s Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg.
The AP photographs were taken throughout Latin America and along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and California in a year when immigration was one of the world’s biggest stories. The award honored 15 photographs by AP employees Greg Bull, Eric Gay, Fernando Llano, Marco Ugarte and Eduardo Verdugo, and veteran AP freelancers Christian Chávez, Félix Márquez and Iván Valencia.
In addition to honoring winners and finalists in 15 journalism categories, the Pulitzer Board also recognizes distinguished work in areas including books, music and theater.
The awards, established in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, are administered by Columbia University in New York.
The awards are administered by Columbia University in New York, which has been in the news for student demonstrations against the war in Gaza. The Pulitzer board met outside Columbia last weekend to deliberate its winners.
The board issued a statement Thursday saluting journalism students from Columbia and other universities across the country for their work covering the campus protests.
For the first time, the Pulitzers opened eligibility to broadcast and audio companies that also operate digital news sites, such as CNN, NPR and the ABC, CBS and NBC broadcast networks. However, the work must be primarily in digital journalism.
The Columbia Journalism School also administers the duPont-Columbia Awards, which recognize broadcast journalism and are presented in winter.
The Pulitzers award cash prizes and a medal for their prestigious public service award, won last year by The Associated Press for its coverage of the Russian siege of Mariupol in Ukraine.