The New York Times won the investigative reporting prize for an expose of predatory lending in the New York City taxi industry, while the staff of The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, took the breaking news reporting award for quickly unpacking racial disparities and other issues in a spate of governor’s pardons. After Biden’s win, what could be next for Donald Trump? The drama winner was Michael R. Jackson’s musical “A Strange Loop.” Benjamin Moser’s “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” about the late Susan Sontag, won for biography. Musicals rarely claim the Pulitzer, with only “Next to Normal” and “Hamilton” winning since 2010. Musicals rarely claim the Pulitzer, with only “Next to Normal” and “Hamilton” winning since 2010. 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The Associated Press won a Pulitzer in feature photography for images made during clampdown on Kashmir, where a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service added to the challenges of telling showing the world what was happening in the region of 7 million people. They won for “The Out Crowd,” which focuses on the human impact of the “Remain in Mexico” policy on asylum cases used by the Trump Administration. AP Photographers Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand snaked around roadblocks, sometimes took cover in strangers’ homes and hid cameras in vegetable bags to capture images of protests, police and paramilitary action and daily life. The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for illuminating the sparse policing of many Alaska villages. The Pulitzer Prizes had something new this year — the inaugural award for audio reporting. AP Photographers Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand snaked around roadblocks, sometimes took cover in strangers’ homes and hid cameras in vegetable bags to capture images of protests, police and paramilitary action and daily life. Colson Whitehead became the rare writer to win Pulitzers for consecutive books. She later moved north, and continued her activism. His novel about a brutal Florida reform school, “The Nickel Boys,” received the fiction prize Monday. The board of the Pulitzer Prizes issued a special citation Monday to Ida B. All rights reserved. The Pulitzer Prize board on Monday awarded its prize for commentary to Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times for an essay she wrote for the 1619 Project. As the show’s audience has grown, it has branched into other forms of media, including film production and a two-season television experiment with Showtime. 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This item has been corrected to show that the fiction prize winner’s first name is Colson, not Colton. In honoring her during the prize announcements, the board noted “her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”. There were two winners in general nonfiction: Greg Grandon’s “The End of the Myth” and Ann Boyer’s’ “The Undying.”, In history, W. Caleb McDaniel won for “Sweet Taste of Liberty.” The poetry winner was Jericho Brown’s “The Tradition.”, In music, the winner was Anthony Davis’ opera “The Central Park Five,” about the five young men wrongly imprisoned for sexual assault. The New York Times won the investigative reporting prize for an expose of predatory lending in the New York City taxi industry, while the staff of The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, took the breaking news reporting award for quickly unpacking racial disparities and other issues in a spate of governor’s pardons. There were two winners in general nonfiction: Greg Grandon’s “The End of the Myth” and Ann Boyer’s’ “The Undying.”, In history, W. Caleb McDaniel won for “Sweet Taste of Liberty.” The poetry winner was Jericho Brown’s “The Tradition.”, In music, the winner was Anthony Davis’ opera “The Central Park Five,” about the five young men wrongly imprisoned for sexual assault. Reiman had been struck by a source’s comparison between Remain in Mexico and the administration’s former policy, abandoned in 2018, of separating migrant parents from their children. “I never thought I would see something like this happen,” Reiman added. “No one cares about a writer who is struggling to write,” sings the anxiety-ridden lead character, Usher. The board of the Pulitzer Prizes issued a special citation Monday to Ida B. WASHINGTON (KXAN) -- Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will make history as the nation's first female vice president when she is sworn-in this January. Posted: May 4, 2020 / 06:04 PM EDT / Updated: May 4, 2020 / 06:04 PM EDT. A first-ever award for audio reporting went to “This American Life,” the Los Angeles Times and Vice News for “The Out Crowd,” an examination of the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” immigration policy. Wells, the trail-blazing African American investigative journalist. She later moved north, and continued her activism. The stories, which Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy described as “riveting,” showed how severely public safety is lacking in Alaska, with one-third of villages having no police protection and dozens of communities hiring officers with criminal records of their own. Here's a complete list of 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners: The Pulitzer Prizes had something new this year — the inaugural award for audio reporting. The Pulitzer board said the citation comes with a bequest of at least $50,000 in support of Wells’ mission, with recipients to be announced. host Alex Trebek has died. The Associated Press won a Pulitzer in feature photography for images made during India’s clampdown on Kashmir, where a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service added to the challenges of telling showing the world what was happening in the region of 7 million people. She later moved north, and continued her activism. They won for “The Out Crowd,” which focuses on the human impact of the “Remain in Mexico” policy on asylum cases used by the Trump Administration. Michael R. Jackson’s musical “A Strange Loop,” a musical about a man trying to write a musical, has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for drama. In honoring her during the prize announcements, the board noted “her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”. Then they headed to an airport to persuade travelers to carry the photo files out with them and get them to AP’s office in New Delhi. The Pulitzer Prize for public service went to a collaboration between the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica for coverage of policing in Alaska villages. The prize validates a strain of narrative audio journalism — rigorous and intimate, conversational and crafted — with which “This American Life” has become synonymous. The board of the Pulitzer Prizes issued a special citation Monday to Ida B. Wells, the trail-blazing African American investigative journalist. A first-ever award for audio reporting went to “This American Life,” the Los Angeles Times and Vice News for “The Out Crowd,” an examination of the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” immigration policy. The Pulitzer board called it a “meditation on universal human fears and insecurities.” The play was seen off-Broadway in 2019 at Playwrights Horizons. The Pulitzer board said the citation comes with a bequest of at least $50,000 in support of Wells’ mission, with recipients to be announced. The Latest: 1st audio Pulitzer prize goes to ‘The Out Crowd’ News. The Left and the Right have very clear narratives on this topic. The project, which she helmed, marked the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans being brought to what became the United States of America and the impact it has had.