Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for public service for Jan. 6 coverage
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Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for public service for Jan. 6 coverage
More than 100 journalists contributed to reporting on the Capitol insurrection that was honored by the Pulitzer Prize’s most prestigious award.
By Elahe Izadi
Today at 3:18 p.m. EDT | Updated today at 4:44 p.m. EDT
The Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and its aftermath. ... The prize, considered American journalism’s highest honor, recognizes the work of more than 100 journalists across the Post’s newsroom, many of whom contributed reporting from the Capitol grounds that day as well as others who investigated the security failures that contributed to the crisis, the human costs of the attack and the larger ramifications for the nation.
“This was a seminal event in American history and democracy,” Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee said. She called it the Post’s “mission and our absolute sacred trust” to not just cover the crisis thoroughly but to find ways to get its reporting and analysis out “to as broad an audience as possible.”
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The New York Times won three Pulitzers Monday — for national reporting, international reporting and criticism — and was named a finalist in the breaking-news category for its reporting on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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The Pulitzers’ gold medal prize for public service is considered the most prestigious of the more than a dozen journalism Pulitzers awarded every year. The Post has previously won the public service prize five times — first in 1973 for its coverage of the Watergate investigation and most recently in 2014, an award it shared with The Guardian for revelations about the National Security Agency’s global surveillance program.
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Full list of 2022 winners and finalists at the Pulitzers website
https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022
By Elahe Izadi
Elahe Izadi covers media for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2014 as a general assignment reporter, and has covered pop culture, Congress, demographics and breaking news. Twitter https://twitter.com/ElaheIzadi
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