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April 16, 2019
Reuters wins Pulitzer Prizes for International Reporting and Breaking News Photography.
Photo: Outside the Columbia School of Journalism building. Image provided by & copyright © Eston Bond.
NEW YORK, April 15, 2019 — Reuters, the world’s largest multimedia news provider, was today awarded two 2019 Pulitzer Prizes from Columbia University. It is for the second consecutive year that Reuters has received two Pulitzer Prizes.
Reuters journalists Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, and their colleagues were recognized as co-winners, alongside the Associated Press, in the International Reporting category, for their series of investigations on the mass expulsion of the Rohingya from Myanmar.
Reuters photographers Mike Blake, Lucy Nicholson, Loren Elliott, Edgard Garrido, Adrees Latif, Goran Tomasevic, Kim Kyung Hoon, Alkis Konstantinidis, Carlos Garcia Rawlins, Carlos Barria and Ueslei Marcelino were recognized in the Breaking News Photography category, for their photos of the mass migration of Central and South Americans towards the U.S. border, and its aftermath. Awarding the prize to Reuters, the Pulitzer committee recognized the team for “a vivid and startling visual narrative of the urgency, desperation, and sadness of migrants as they journeyed to the U.S. from Central and South America.”
“While it’s gratifying that we got recognized for the work, public attention should be focused more on the people about whom we report than on us: in this case, the Rohingya and the Central American migrants,” said Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler.
“I’m thrilled that Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo and their colleagues have been recognized for their extraordinary, courageous coverage, and our photojournalists for their moving pictures that show humanity defying huge obstacles,” said Adler.
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people every day.
• Announcement of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners
On Monday, April 15, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners in 14 journalism and seven letters, drama and music categories.
The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners are:
- Journalism -
• Public Service
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
• Breaking News Reporting
The staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Investigative Reporting
Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times
• Explanatory Reporting
David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times
• Local Reporting
The staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La.
• National Reporting
The staff of The Wall Street Journal
• International Reporting
Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty of Associated Press.
The staff of Reuters. Critical contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.
• Feature Writing
Hannah Dreier of ProPublica
• Commentary
Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Criticism
Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post
• Editorial Writing
Brent Staples of The New York Times
• Editorial Cartooning
Darrin Bell, freelancer
• Breaking News Photography
Photography Staff of Reuters
• Feature Photography
Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post
- Letters, Drama and Music -
• Fiction
The Overstory, by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)
• Drama
Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury
• History
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster)
• Biography
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford University Press)
• Poetry
Be With, by Forrest Gander (New Directions)
• General Nonfiction
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• Music
PRISM, by Ellen Reid
• Special Citations
Capital Gazette, Annapolis, Md.
Aretha Franklin
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. Columbia University in New York City administers it. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. The Pulitzer Prize Board awards a gold medal to the winner in the public service category of the journalism competition.
Sources: Pulitzer Prize, Reuters.
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