Announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes

Columbia University today announces the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

The Board also announces the election of its two co-chairs: Stephen Engelberg, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, President, Publisher and Executive Editor, Miami Herald. Both Engelberg and Marqués Gonzalez are entering their ninth year as Pulitzer Prize Board members.

For more information on this year’s Prize finalists and winners in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music, please visit Pulitzer.org to find biographical information and read winning work.

The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners are:

JOURNALISM

Public Service

Anchorage Daily News in collaboration with ProPublica

Breaking News Reporting

Staff of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.

Investigative Reporting

Brian M. Rosenthal of The New York Times

Explanatory Reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

Local Reporting  

Staff of The Baltimore Sun

National Reporting

T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi of ProPublica

and    

Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times

International Reporting

Staff of The New York Times

Feature Writing

Ben Taub of The New Yorker

Commentary

Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times

Criticism

Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times

Editorial Writing

Jeffery Gerritt of the Palestine (Tx.) Herald-Press

Editorial Cartooning

Barry Blitt, contributor, The New Yorker

Breaking News Photography

Photography Staff of Reuters

Feature Photography

Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of the Associated Press

Audio Reporting

Staff of This American Life with Molly O’Toole of the Los Angeles Times and Emily Green, freelancer, Vice News for “The Out Crowd” 

LETTERS AND DRAMA

Fiction

"The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)

Drama

"A Strange Loop" by Michael R. Jackson

History

"Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America" by W. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press)

Biography

"Sontag: Her Life and Work" by Benjamin Moser (Ecco/HarperCollins)

Poetry

"The Tradition" by Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press)

General Nonfiction

"The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care" by Anne Boyer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

and

"The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America" by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)

Music

"The Central Park Five" by Anthony Davis, premiered by Long Beach Opera on June 15, 2019

Special Citation

Ida B. Wells