Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett passes away at 91

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for The Associated Press, died Wednesday in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family, said his son Andrew Arnett. He had been suffering from prostate cancer. Peter Arnett was one of the greatest war correspondents of his generation intrepid, fearless, and a beautiful writer and storyteller. His reporting in print and on camera will remain a legacy for aspiring journalists and historians for generations to come, said Edith Lederer, who was a fellow AP war correspondent in Vietnam in 1972-73 and is now AP's chief correspondent at the United Nations. As a wire-service correspondent, Arnett was known mostly to fellow journalists when he reported in Vietnam from .

From Nobel to Grammy winners: People who defined excellence in 2025

Maria Corina Machado's Peace Prize and Kendrick Lamar's Grammy triumph capture how 2025 honoured both democratic resistance and cultural reinvention

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