Here’s the full list of winners and finalists.
PUBLIC SERVICE The Pulitzer committee honored The Post with the prestigious public service award for its “compellingly told and vividly presented account of the assault on Washington on Jan.6,2021.” Finalists Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; The New York Times BREAKING NEWS The Herald won the award for its “urgent yet sweeping” coverage of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex in Surfside, Fla. Finalists Staff of The Los Angeles Times; staff of The New York Times INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING A multipart investigation of toxic hazards inside Florida’s only battery recycling plant was a “compelling exposé,” the committee said, and it led to safety measures to protect workers and residents. Finalists Jeffrey Meitrodt and Nicole Norfleet of The Star Tribune of Minneapolis; Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran of The Washington Post EXPLANATORY REPORTING Quanta’s coverage of the James Webb Space Telescope showed how it would facilitate groundbreaking astronomical research. Finalists Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer; staff of The Wall Street Journal LOCAL REPORTING The reporters examined Chicago’s long history of failed building code and fire safety code enforcement, which let landlords commit violations resulting in dozens of unnecessary deaths. Finalists Tony Cook, Johnny Magdaleno and Michelle Pemberton of The Indianapolis Star; Lulu Ramadan of The Palm Beach Post; and Ash Ngu, Maya Miller and Nadia Sussman of ProPublica NATIONAL REPORTING Times reporters quantified a pattern of fatal traffic stops by the police. Officers typically avoided punishment. Finalists Eli Hager of the Marshall Project and Joseph Shapiro, contributor, of National Public Radio; staff of The Washington Post INTERNATIONAL REPORTING The committee cited “courageous and relentless reporting that exposed the vast civilian toll of U.S.-led airstrikes, challenging official accounts of American military engagements in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.” Finalists Staff of The New York Times; Yaroslav Trofimov and the staff of The Wall Street Journal FEATURE WRITING Ms. Senior’s portrait of a family’s reckoning with loss in the two decades since the Sept.11 terror attacks won for “masterfully braiding the author’s personal connection to the story with sensitive reporting that reveals the long reach of grief.” Finalists Anand Gopal, contributing writer for The New Yorker; Meribah Knight of WPLN and Ken Armstrong of ProPublica COMMENTARY For “persuasive columns demanding justice” for those who accused a retired police detective of being a sexual predator.
