The 2019 Prize winners are:

Journalism

Public Service

South Florida Sun Sentinel

For exposing failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the deadly shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Breaking News Reporting

Staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For immersive, compassionate coverage of the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue that captured the anguish and resilience of a community thrust into grief.

Investigative Reporting

Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times

For consequential reporting on a University of Southern California gynecologist accused of violating hundreds of young women for more than a quarter-century.

Explanatory Reporting

David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times

For an exhaustive 18-month investigation of President Donald Trump’s finances that debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges. 

Local Reporting

Staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La.

For a damning portrayal of the state’s discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused’s guilt.

National Reporting

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

For uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment.

International Reporting

Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty of Associated Press

For a revelatory yearlong series detailing the atrocities of the war in Yemen, including theft of food aid, deployment of child soldiers and torture of prisoners.

Staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo

For expertly exposing the military units and Buddhist villagers responsible for the systematic expulsion and murder of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, courageous coverage that landed its reporters in prison.

Feature Writing

Hannah Dreier of ProPublica

For a series of powerful, intimate narratives that followed Salvadorian immigrants on New York’s Long Island whose lives were shattered by a botched federal crackdown on the international criminal gang MS-13.

Commentary

Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For bold columns that exposed the malfeasance and injustice of forcing poor rural Missourians charged with misdemeanor crimes to pay unaffordable fines or be sent to jail.

Criticism

Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post

For trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.

Editorial Writing

Brent Staples of The New York Times

For editorials written with extraordinary moral clarity that charted the racial fault lines in the United States at a polarizing moment in the nation’s history.

Editorial Cartooning

Darrin Bell, freelancer

For beautiful and daring editorial cartoons that took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration.

Breaking News Photography

Photography Staff of Reuters

Feature Photography

Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post

For brilliant photo storytelling of the tragic famine in Yemen, shown through images in which beauty and composure are intertwined with devastation. (Moved by the jury from Breaking News Photography, where it was originally entered.)

Letters, Drama and Music

Fiction

The Overstory, by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)

An ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them.

Drama

Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury

A hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices.

History

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster)

A breathtaking history that demonstrates the scope of Frederick Douglass’ influence through deep research on his writings, his intellectual evolution and his relationships.

Biography

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford University Press)

A panoramic view of the personal trials and artistic triumphs of the father of the Harlem Renaissance and the movement he inspired.

Poetry

Be With, by Forrest Gander (New Directions)

A collection of elegies that grapple with sudden loss, and the difficulties of expressing grief and yearning for the departed.

General Nonfiction

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

A classic American story, grippingly told, of an Appalachian family struggling to retain its middle class status in the shadow of destruction wreaked by corporate oil fracking.

Music

p r i s m, by Ellen Reid

A bold new operatic work that uses sophisticated vocal writing and striking instrumental timbres to confront difficult subject matter: the effects of sexual and emotional abuse. Libretto by Roxie Perkins.

Special Citations

Capital Gazette

A special citation to honor the journalists, staff and editorial board of the Capital Gazette, Annapolis, Maryland, for their courageous response to the largest killing of journalists in U.S. history in their newsroom on June 28, 2018, and for demonstrating unflagging commitment to covering the news and serving their community at a time of unspeakable grief. The citation comes with a $100,000 bequest by the Pulitzer Board to be used to further the newspaper’s journalistic mission.

Aretha Franklin

For her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades.

Pulitzer Prize                       

 

조셉 퓰리처의 유언으로 1917년 창설되어 컬럼비아대학원 언론학과 주최하는 퓰리처상은 언론/출판-희곡-음악으로 나뉘어져 21개 부문에 걸쳐 시상한다. 각 수상자에겐 상장과 1만5000달러를 부상으로 주며, 언론 부문의 공공 서비스 부문 수상자는 금메달을 수여한다.  

퓰리처상 시상 부문 

<언론(Journalism)> 

# 보도(Reporting): 속보(Breaking News)/탐사보도(Investigative)/해설보도(Explanatory)/ 지역(Local)/ 전국(National)/ 국제(International)

# 기사(Writing): 기획(Feature)/ 사설(Editorial)

# 사진(Photography): 속보(Breaking News)/ 기획(Feature)

# 기타(Other): 논평(Commentary)/ 비평(Criticism)/ 만평(Editorial Cartooning)/ 공익(Public Service)

<출판/ 희곡/ 음악(Letters/ Drama/ Music)>

전기(Biography) / 자서전(Autobiography)/ 소설(Fiction)/ 일반 넌픽션(General Nonfiction)/ 역사(History)/ 시(Poetry)/ 희곡( Drama)/ 음악(Music)

퓰리처상 수상 한인 기자들 

# 1993년 강형원 기자(LA타임스): 취재 부문 (Spot News Reporting: The staff of the Los Angeles Times) 공동 수상-LA 폭동

# 1999년 강형원 사진기자(AP통신): 기획사진 부문(Feature Photography: The staff of the Associated Press) 공동 수상-빌 클린턴 섹스 스캔달

# 2000년 최상훈 기자(AP 통신 서울지국 기자): 2000년 탐사보도 부문(Investigative Reporting: Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza) 공동 수상-노근리 양민학살 사건

# 2002년 이장욱 기자(뉴욕타임스 사진기자): 속보 사진 부문(Breaking News Photography: The staff of The New York Times) 공동 수상-9.11 테러 공격과 여파

# 2002년 이장욱 기자(뉴욕타임스 사진기자): 기획사진 부문(Feature Photography: The staff of The New York Times) 뉴욕타임스 사진 스탭 공동 수상-아프가니스탄과 파키스탄 현장 사진 시리즈

# 2011년 존 김/김주호(시카고 선타임스 사진기자): 지역보도 부문(Local Reporting to Frank Main, Mark Konkol, and John J. Kim (Chicago Sun-Times) 공동 수상

 

*퓰리처상 2관왕 이장욱 뉴욕타임스 사진기자 인터뷰

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*신문왕 조셉 퓰리처 다큐멘터리