Surpassing:2024 Pulitzer Prizes announced: See full list of winners, nominees

The SurpassingPulitzer Prize Board announced winners and nominated finalists of the 108th Pulitzer Prize Monday.

Marjorie Miller, Administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and the Vice President and Global Enterprise Editor at The Associated Press, announced the winners and finalists, which were awarded and designated on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University, according to a press release by the institution.

"The Pulitzer Prizes are more than journalism's esteemed honor," said Neil Brown, co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board. "They are a commitment to the highest standards of fairness, honesty and storytelling for those who pursue facts and reveal uncomfortable truths."

The Pulitzer Prize Board, on Thursday, also said it "recognizes the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk."

2024 Pulitzer Prize winners

Miller announced the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners and nominated finalists via livestream on Monday.

"This year there was remarkable coverage of the Hamas attack on Israel and two wars in Gaza and Ukraine," Miller said before announcing winners in the field of Journalism. "There were tragic natural disasters in Hawaii and Turkey."

"The entries included many instances of workplace harm to employees, consumers and soldiers, hate crimes and criminal justice. Corruption and impunity and migration remained persistent themes in American life. And globally we saw stories on the proliferation of undemocratic uses of technology, along with the growing presence of AI in our lives."

Winners were awarded under the following categories in the field of journalism.

Breaking news reporting

• Staff of the Honolulu Civil Beat
• Staff of Los Angeles Times
• Winner: Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz, California

Investigative Reporting

• Staff of Bloomberg
• Winner: Hannah Dreier of The New York Times
• Casey Ross and Rob Herman of STAT

Public service

• KFF Health News and Cox Media Group
• Winner: ProPublica, for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliot, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg
• The Washington Post

Explanatory reporting

• Staff of Bloomberg
• Winner: Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker
• Staff of The Texas Tribune, ProPublica and FRONTLINE

Local reporting

• Winner: Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute
• Jerry Mitchell, Ilyssa Daly, Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield of Mississippi Today and The New York Times
• Staff of The Villages Daily Sun

National reporting

• Bianca Vázquez Toness and Sharon Lurye of the Associated Press
• Dave Phillips of The New York Times
• Winner: Staff of Reuters
• Winner: Staff of The Washington Post

International reporting

• Winner: Staff of The New York Times
• Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios of The New York Times
• Staff of The Washington Post

Feature writing

• Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Project, co-published with The New York Times Magazine
• Winner: Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times
• Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic

Commentary

• Brian Lyman of the Alabama Reflector
• Jay Caspian Kang of The New Yorker
• Winner: Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post

Criticism

• Zadie Smith, contributor, The New York Review of Books
• Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker
• Winner: Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times

Editorial writing

• Isadora Rangel of the Miami Herald
• Brandon McGinley and Rebecca Spiess of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Winner: David E. Hoffman of The Washington Post

Illustrated reporting and commentary

• Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press
• Winner: Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker
• Angie Wang, contributor, The New Yorker
• Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca and Ren Galeno, contributor, of The Washington Post

Breaking news photography

• Adem Altan of Agence France Presse
• Nicole S. Hester of The Tennessean
• Winner: Photography Staff of Reuters

Feature photography

• Hannah Reyes Morales, contributor, The New York Times
• Nanna Heitman, contributor, The New York Times
• Photography Staff of Associated Press

Audio reporting

• Winner: Staff of the Invisible Institute, Chicago and USG Audio, California
• Dan Slepian and Preeti Varathan, contributor, of NBC News
• Lauran Chooljian, Alison Macadam, Jason Moon, Daniel Barrick and Katie Colaneri of New Hampshire Public Radio

Categories under "Arts and Letters" include:

Drama

• "Here There Are Blueberries" by Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
• Winner: "Primary Trust" by Eboni Booth
• "Public Obscenities" by Shayok Misha Chowdhury

History

• Winner: "No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era" by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
• "Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion" by Elliot West (University of Nebraska Press)
• "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" by Michael Willrich (Basic Books)

Biography

• "Larry McMurtry: A Life" by Tracy Daughtery
• Winner: "King: A Life" by Jonathan Eig
• Winner: "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" by Ilyon Woo

Memoir or Autobiography

• Winner: "Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice" by Cristina Rivera Garza
• "The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight" by Andrew Leland
• "The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness and the Tragedy of Good Intentions" by Jonathen Rosen

Poetry

• "To 2040" by Jorie Graham
• "Information Desk: An Epic" by Robyn Schiff
• Winner: "Tripas: Poems" by Brandom Som

General Nonfiction

• "Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World" by John Vaillant
• Winner: "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy" by Nathan Thrall
• "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives" by Sidharth

Music

• "Double Concerto for esperanza spalding, Claire Chase and large orchestra by Felipe Lara
• Paper Pianos by Mary
• Winner: Adagio (for Wadada Leo Smith) by Tyshawn Sorey

Fiction

• Winner: "Night Watch" by Jayne Anne Phillips
• "Wednesday's Child" by Yiyun Li
• "Same Bed Different Dreams" by Ed Park

Special Citation

• Greg Tate (1967 - 2021)
• Journalists covering Gaza

2024 Pulitzer Prize Announcement: How to watch

Watch the 2024 Pulitzer Prize announcements here:

2023 winners

Last year's winners included the staff of the Los Angeles Times for breaking news reporting that uncovered racist comments by city officials, and the staff of The Wall Street Journal for investigative reporting on financial conflicts of interest among federal officials.

Austin American-Statesman, part of the USA TODAY Network, was also a finalist in the category of public service for its coverage on law enforcement’s flawed response to the Uvalde shooting that left 19 school children and two teachers dead Texas.

Individual winners included Eli Saslow of The Washington Post for feature writing, Kyle Whitmire of AL.com for commentary and Andrea Long Chu of New York Magazine for criticism.

Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and follow her on X @saman_shafiq7.