Reuters won the breaking news photography award for its coverage of the October 7 attack and the war in Gaza.
The war in Gaza featured prominently in Monday’s Pulitzer Prizes, which included a special mention for journalists covering the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The New York Times won a Pulitzer in international reporting for its “broad and revealing coverage of Hamas’ deadly attack in southern Israel on October 7” as well as reporting on “the Israeli military’s deadly and sweeping response.”
Meanwhile, Reuters won the breaking news photography award for its “raw and urgent” coverage of the October 7 attack and the Israeli response, while a special citation recognized “journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza”.
“This war also claimed the lives of poets and writers,” the committee said. “As the Pulitzer Prizes honor categories of journalism, arts and letters, we mark the loss of priceless records of the human experience.”
The awards, given at Columbia University, come as the New York college faces backlash after calling in police to evict pro-Palestinian protesters. Police largely blocked media presence at the scene and threatened student journalists covering the events with arrest.
Two Columbia student newspaper editors described in an article over the weekend the university’s “suppression” of their reporting, including threats of arrest by police and demands from the university to turn over videos and photos.
Other awards honored North American journalists’ reporting on migrant child labor, racial disparities in the legal system and gun violence.
Author Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction prize for her novel “Night Watch”, about a mother and daughter during and after the US Civil War, while the non-fiction prize went to “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a man”, by Nathan Thrall. Tragedy of Jerusalem.”
The committee praised the “intimate and well-reported account of life under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, told through the portrait of a Palestinian father whose five-year-old son dies in a burning school bus accident as Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams are delayed by safety regulations.”
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