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"The Washington Post received three Pulitzer Prizes, one in national reporting for its immersive series on the political and cultural impact of the AR-15 rifle. Using chilling imagery and 3D animation, the series conveyed the weapon's deadly capabilities. David E. Hoffman, an editorial writer, was recognized for his series on the global rise of autocracy. Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian political activist and Post contributing columnist imprisoned since April 2022 for speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine, won the commentary category for essays written from behind bars.
ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative reporting organization, was awarded the public service honor, considered the gold medal of the Pulitzers, for its examination of the close relationships between Supreme Court justices and billionaire donors who have lavished them with gifts and travel.
The Pulitzer committee highlighted media coverage of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent military incursion into Gaza. The New York Times won the international reporting category for its coverage of the conflict, and Reuters won the breaking-news photography category. The committee also issued a special citation honoring journalists covering Gaza, noting the high number of journalist deaths.
In recent years, national news organizations like The Post have dominated the Pulitzers, administered by Columbia University. The Times won three prizes Monday, while the New Yorker won two.
This year, the committee also recognized several smaller local news outlets. Lookout Santa Cruz, a four-year-old publication, won a breaking-news prize for its coverage of devastating floods in central California. The Honolulu Civil Beat was a finalist for its coverage of the August wildfires in Hawaii. Invisible Institute, a nonprofit journalism organization on Chicago’s South Side, shared two prizes with media outlets it collaborated with on local crime stories.
The Post’s AR-15 project began after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Tex., in May 2022. Investigations editor Peter Wallsten and colleagues decided to find a new way to write about mass shootings, focusing on the rifle most associated with them.
Their goal was to tell the weapon’s story in a more ambitious and eye-opening way, showing its raw capacity to destroy human bodies and decimate communities. One feature of the series, dubbed “American Icon,” used animation to demonstrate how bullets fired by an AR-15 can shred the human body. With permission from surviving families, the team depicted how two children in different mass shootings were fatally wounded by the weapon."