Columbia University announced the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
The 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners in the category of journalism are:
Public Service-ProPublica, Breaking News Reporting- Staff of The Washington Post, Investigative Reporting-Staff of Reuters, Explanatory Reporting -Azam Ahmed, Matthieu Aikins, contributing writer, and Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times, Local Reporting – Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times, National Reporting -Staff of The Wall Street Journal, International Reporting -Declan Walsh and the Staff of The New York Times, Feature Writing-Mark Warren, contributor, Esquire, Commentary -Mosab Abu Toha, contributor, The New Yorker, Criticism -Alexandra Lange, contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab, Editorial Writing -Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz of the Houston Chronicle, Illustrated Reporting and Commentary-Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post, Breaking News Photography-Doug Mills of The New York Times, Feature Photography -Moises Saman, contributor, The New Yorker and Audio Reporting-Staff of The New Yorker.
In the category of Books, Drama and Music, Pulitzer Prizes goes to “James,” by Percival Everett (Knopf) [Sub Category- Fiction], “Purpose,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins [Sub category-Drama], “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,” by Edda L. Fields-Black (Oxford University Press) and “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America,” by Kathleen DuVal (Random House) [Sub category -History (2 Prizes)], “Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life,” by Jason Roberts (Random House)[Sub Category-Biography], “Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir,” by Tessa Hulls (MCD)[Sub category -Memoir or Autobiography],“New and Selected Poems,” by Marie Howe (W. W. Norton & Company) [Sub category – poetry], “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement,” by Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press) [sub category -General Nonfiction], and “Sky Islands,” by Susie Ibarra [Music].
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money for Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and establish the Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917.
The 18-member Pulitzer Board is composed of leading journalists or news executives from media outlets across the U.S., as well as five academics or persons in the arts. Dean of Columbia’s journalism school and the administrator of the prizes are non-voting members. The chair rotates annually to the most senior member or members.
