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New York, NY (May 9, 2022) — Columbia University today announces the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
For more information on this year’s Prize winners and finalists in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music, please visit the Prize Winner section of Pulitzer.org to find biographical information and read winning & nominated work.
The 2022 Pulitzer Prize winners are:
Journalism
Public Service
The Washington Post
Finalists:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The New York Times
Breaking News Reporting
Staff of the Miami Herald
Finalists:
Staff of the Los Angeles Times
Staff of The New York Times
Investigative Reporting
Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington and Eli Murray of the Tampa Bay Times
Finalists:
Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran of The Washington Post
Jeffrey Meitrodt and Nicole Norfleet of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.
Explanatory Reporting
Staff of Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y., notably Natalie Wolchover
Finalists:
Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
Local Reporting
Madison Hopkins of the Better Government Association and Cecilia Reyes of the Chicago Tribune
Finalists:
Lulu Ramadan of The Palm Beach Post and Ash Ngu, Maya Miller and Nadia Sussman of ProPublica
Tony Cook, Johnny Magdaleno and Michelle Pemberton of The Indianapolis Star
National Reporting
Staff of The New York Times
Finalists:
Eli Hager of The Marshall Project and Joseph Shapiro, contributor, of National Public Radio
Staff of The Washington Post
International Reporting
Staff of The New York Times
Finalists:
Staff of The New York Times
Staff of The New York Times
Yaroslav Trofimov and the Staff of The Wall Street Journal
Feature Writing
Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic
Finalists:
Anand Gopal, contributing writer, The New Yorker
Meribah Knight of WPLN, contributor, and Ken Armstrong of ProPublica
Commentary
Melinda Henneberger of The Kansas City Star
Finalists:
Julian Aguon, freelance contributor, The Atlantic
Zeynep Tufekci, for columns published in The New York Times and The Atlantic
Criticism
Salamishah Tillet, contributing critic at large, The New York Times
Finalists:
Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker
Sophie Gilbert of The Atlantic
Editorial Writing
Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco of the Houston Chronicle
Finalists:
Abdallah Fayyad of The Boston Globe
Editorial Staff of The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider, New York, N.Y.
Finalists:
Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post
Zoe Si, contributor, The New Yorker
Breaking News Photography
Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times
Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry of Getty Images
Finalist:
Anonymous, freelance contributor, The New York Times
Feature Photography
Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters
Finalists:
Gabrielle Lurie of the San Francisco Chronicle
Photography Staff of Reuters
Audio Reporting
Staffs of Futuro Media, New York, N.Y. and PRX, Boston, Mass.
Finalists:
Eyder Peralta, Solomon Fisseha, Alsanosi Adam and Halima Athumani of National Public Radio
Mike Hixenbaugh, Antonia Hylton, Frannie Kelley, Reid Cherlin and Julie Shapiro of NBC News
Books, Drama and Music
Fiction
"The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family," by Joshua Cohen (New York Review Books)
Finalists:
"Monkey Boy," by Francisco Goldman (Grove Press)
"Palmares," by Gayl Jones (Beacon Press)
Drama
"Fat Ham," by James Ijames
Finalists:
"Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord," by Kristina Wong
"Selling Kabul," by Sylvia Khoury
History
"Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America," by Nicole Eustace (Liveright/Norton)
"Cuba: An American History," by Ada Ferrer (Scribner)
Finalist:
"Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction," by Kate Masur (W. W. Norton & Company)
Biography
"Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South," by the late Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly (Bloomsbury)
Finalists:
"Pessoa: A Biography," by Richard Zenith (Liveright/Norton)
"The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine," by Janice P. Nimura (W. W. Norton & Company)
Poetry
"frank: sonnets," by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press)
Finalists:
"Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten," by Will Alexander (New Directions)
"Yellow Rain," by Mai Der Vang (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction
"Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City," by Andrea Elliott (Random House)
Finalists:
"Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism," by Carla Power (One World/Random House)
"The Family Roe: An American Story," by Joshua Prager (W. W. Norton & Company)
Music
"Voiceless Mass," by Raven Chacon
Finalists:
"Seven Pillars," by Andy Akiho
"with eyes the color of time," by Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
Special Citation
The Journalists of Ukraine
A press kit (including the full long list of winners and finalists) is available at Pulitzer.org/media.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to 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 19-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. The 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.
