Pulitzer Prizes 2025: List of Winners

Category

Winners

Finalists

Public Service

ProPublica (Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo, Stacy Kranitz)

• The Boston Globe, Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
• The New York Times (Dave Philipps)

Breaking News Reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

• Staff of Associated Press
• Staffs of The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer

Investigative Reporting

Staff of Reuters

• Christopher Weaver, Anna Wilde Mathews, Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty, Andrew Mollica (The Wall Street Journal)
• Staffs of Associated Press and FRONTLINE

Explanatory Reporting

Azam Ahmed, Matthieu Aikins, Christina Goldbaum (The New York Times)

• Alexia Campbell, April Simpson, Pratheek Rebala (Center for Public Integrity)
• Nadia Hamdan (Reveal); Annie Waldman, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau, Maya Miller (ProPublica)

Local Reporting

Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme, Jessica Gallagher (The Baltimore Banner, The New York Times)

• Katey Rusch, Casey Smith (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Mike Reicher, Lynda Mapes, Fiona Martin (The Seattle Times)

National Reporting

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

• Jennifer Gollan, Susie Neilson (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Staff of The Washington Post

International Reporting

Declan Walsh and Staff of The New York Times

• Staff of The Wall Street Journal
• Staff of The Washington Post

Feature Writing

Mark Warren (Esquire)

• Anand Gopal (The New Yorker)
• Joe Sexton (The Marshall Project)

Commentary

Mosab Abu Toha (The New Yorker)

• Gustavo Arellano (Los Angeles Times)
• Jerry Brewer (The Washington Post)

Criticism

Alexandra Lange (Bloomberg CityLab)

• Sara Holdren (New York Magazine)
• Vinson Cunningham (The New Yorker)

Editorial Writing

Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg, Leah Binkovitz (Houston Chronicle)

• David Scharfenberg, Alan Wirzbicki, Marcela García (The Boston Globe)
• Opinion Staff of The New York Times

Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

Ann Telnaes (The Washington Post)

• Ernesto Barbieri, Jess Ruliffson (The Boston Globe)
• Iran Martinez, Steve Breen, Jamie Self, Giovanni Moujaes (inewsource.org, San Diego)

Breaking News Photography

Doug Mills (The New York Times)

• Nanna Heitmann, Tyler Hicks, David Guttenfelder, Nicole Tung (The New York Times)
• Photography Staff of Agence France-Presse

Feature Photography

Moises Saman (The New Yorker)

• Lynsey Addario, contributor, The New York Times
• Photography Staff of Associated Press

Audio Reporting

Staff of The New Yorker

• Dan Taberski, Henry Molofsky, Morgan Jones, Marshall Lewy, Staffs of Wondery and Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios
• Staffs of WNYC and Gothamist

Fiction

James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)

• Headshot: A Novel by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking); Mice 1961 by Stacey Levine (Verse Chorus Press)
• The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones (Beacon Press)

Drama

Purpose by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

• Oh, Mary! by Cole Escola
• The Ally by Itamar Moses

History

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black (Oxford University Press)

• Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (Random House)
• Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by Seth Rockman (University of Chicago Press)

Biography

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts (Random House)

• John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg (Simon & Schuster)
• The World She Edited: Katherine S. White at The New Yorker by