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The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of global migration to the US. Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel and the aftermath produced work that resulted in two Pulitzers and a special citation. The Times won for text coverage that the Pulitzer board described as "wide-ranging and revelatory," while the Reuters news service won for its photography. The citation went to journalists and other writers covering the war in Gaza. The prestigious public service award went to ProPublica for reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy around the US Supreme Court to show how billionaires gave expensive gifts to justices and paid for luxury travel. Reporters Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg were honoured for their work. The Pulitzers ...
A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey, in September 24, 2015. Reuters and The New York Times shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for images of the migrant crisis in Europe and West Asia.AT A GLANCEThe Associated PressPulitzer Prize for public serviceSeafood From Slaves series exposed slavery and vicious abuse in the Southeast Asia fishing trade, leading to the release of 2,000 captives and broad reforms in the United StatesStaff of The Washington PostNational reporting, for its revelatory database detailing fatal shootings by police officers nationwide, idetifying 990 fatal shootings nationwide in 2015, far more than ever recorded by the federal government.Kathryn Schulz,The New YorkerFeature Writing, "The Really Big One," about the potential for a major earthquake in the Pacific NorthwestAlissa J Rubin,Paris bureau chief of The New York Times,I