Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri rejects award over museums kaffiyeh ban

Indian-origin author Jhumpa Lahiri declined the prestigious 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award in protest of the Noguchi Museum's recently implemented dress code policy

Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to NYT, Washington Post and AP

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 ...

Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Road,' dies at 89

McCarthy died of natural causes at his residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Tuesday

A panoramic history of the cell

Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of The Cell is a beautifully crafted exposition of the author's own lifelong fascination with the subject

Rules for no-fly lists

Citizens should be informed

Slain journalist Danish Siddiqui among 4 Indians to get Pulitzer Prize

The award-winning journalist was killed in July last while covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city

Pulitzer Board grants special citation to Afghanistan journalists

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced a special citation Friday for people in Afghanistan who risked their safety to help produce news stories and images from their war-torn country.

Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan wins Pulitzer prize

Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has won Pulitzer Prize exposing China's mass detention camps for Muslim Uighurs and other minority ethnicites

An award-winning journalist tracks humankind's migration out of Africa

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek is on an intercontinental journey of 24,000 miles, tracing humankind's movement out of Africa right down to South America

3 photojournalists from J&K win Pulitzer for 'striking images of life'

Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of the Associated Press won in the feature photography category.

3 AP photojournalists win Feature Photography Pulitzer for Kashmir coverage

'I would just like to say thank you for standing by us always. It's an honour and a privilege beyond any we could have ever imagined,' Yasin said on Twitter

Three Indian journalists win Pulitzer Prize 2020 in feature photography

Yasin and Khan are journalists based in Srinagar, while Anand is based in Jammu.

Closing the gender gap

The GII has been criticised for its complexity and difficulty in interpretation or understanding

Destigmatising mental health

Most patients and their families prefer being in the denial mode

New tune from Pulitzer

Pulitzer remains singularly im­portant - which makes its intricate ru­l­es and shifts of stylistic emphasis big ne­w­s in the music world

Meet photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who has clicked his way to Pulitzer

Siddiqui is now hopeful that his photographs can raise more awareness about the Rohingya tragedy

Kendrick Lamar becomes first rapper to win Pulitzer Prize for his album

Andrew Sean Greer took home the Pulitzer in Fiction for his comic queer novel "Less"

NYT, New Yorker win Pulitzer for Weinstein reportage that sparked #MeToo

Since the Times and New Yorker articles last October, more than 100 women have publicly accused the producer of misconduct ranging from sexual harassment to rape

Pulitzers 2017: Washington Post, NY Times win big for work on Trump, Putin

The Pulitzers, the most prestigious honors in American journalism, have been awarded since 1917

Pick of 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