Pulitzer Prize Winners 2017

Pulitzer Prize Winners 2017

Journalism

• Public service: New York Daily News and ProPublica, for Sarah Ryley’s series on NYPD-led evictions
• Breaking news: Staff of the East Bay Times, for their coverage of the Ghost Ship fire
• Investigative reporting: Eric Eyre of the Charleston Gazette-Mail, for his coverage of the West Virginia opioid epidemic
• Explanatory reporting: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and Miami Herald, for the Panama Papers
• Local reporting: Staff of the Salt Lake Tribune, for their coverage of sexual assault at Brigham Young University
• National reporting: David A. Fahrenthold of the Washington Post, for his coverage of the question of Donald Trump’s philanthropy
• International reporting: Staff of the New York Times, for reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Russia’s power abroad
• Feature writing: C.J. Chivers of the New York Times, for his feature on a Marine’s life after the war
• Commentary: Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, for her coverage of the election season
• Criticism: Hilton Als of the New Yorker, for his theater reviews
• Editorial writing: Art Cullen of the Storm Lake Times, for his coverage of Iowa’s corporate agricultural interests
• Editorial cartooning: Jim Morin of the Miami Herald, for his political cartoons
• Breaking news photography: Daniel Berehulak, freelancer, for his photography of government assault on drug dealers and users in the Philippines
• Feature photography: E. Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune, for his photo essay on a child who survived a shooting in Chicago

Arts and letters

• Fiction: The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
• Drama: Sweat, by Lynn Nottage
• History: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971, by Heather Ann Thompson
• Biography: The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, by Hisham Matar
• Poetry: Olio, by Tyehimba Jess
• General nonfiction: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
• Music: Angel’s Bone, by Du Yun