AP, Reuters, Minnesota Star Tribune among Pulitzer winners for 2025 work

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for planetary reporting for an probe into wide surveillance tools and their interaction successful China, and Reuters won the grant Monday for reporting connected U.S. President Donald Trump’s usage of enforcement power.

Spanning 3 years, thousands of pages of documents and galore interviews, the AP task recovered that American companies assistance laic the foundations of the Chinese government’s strategy for monitoring and policing its citizens.

Other stories included a look astatine however crossed statesmanlike administrations, Washington allowed tech companies and Beijing to skirt regulations intended to barroom China from entree to definite materials, specified arsenic precocious machine chips.

Reuters' enactment looked astatine however Trump has utilized the national authorities and his supporters’ power to grow statesmanlike authorization and to effort to punish his foes, the grant judges noted.

It was 1 of 2 awards for Reuters. Its reporting connected the societal media elephantine Meta won a prize successful the recently revived class for bushed reporting.

The Minnesota Star Tribune’s sum of past year’s wide shooting astatine a Minneapolis Catholic schoolhouse took the prize for breaking news.

Judges praised the “thoroughness and compassion” of the newspaper’s reporting connected a country of carnage successful its hometown. Two children were killed and much than a twelve others were injured arsenic shooter opened occurrence during the school’s archetypal Mass of the world year. The shooter aboriginal was recovered dormant of what appeared to beryllium a self-inflicted gunshot.

Pulitzers travel a week aft an onslaught connected property dinner

The Pulitzer announcement — conducted by livestream and usually followed by a meal aboriginal successful the twelvemonth — came small much than a week aft an equipped antheral rushed a information checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with Secret Service agents extracurricular different large lawsuit for U.S. journalists, the White House Correspondents' Association meal successful Washington. The antheral is present charged with trying to assassinate Trump, who was attending the lawsuit for his archetypal clip arsenic president.

The Pulitzer journalism awards are for enactment done successful 2025 by U.S. quality sites, newspapers, magazines and ligament services successful text, photo, and audio. Video and graphics tin beryllium portion of an introduction package. Television and vigor stations’ websites besides are eligible, if their entries absorption connected written material.

Separately, Monday’s awards besides honored books, euphony and theater.

The Pulitzer Prizes were established successful paper steadfast Joseph Pulitzer’s volition and were archetypal awarded successful 1917. Winners person $15,000, and the prestigious nationalist work grant earns a golden medal.

Decisions are made by the Pulitzer Board, based astatine Columbia University successful New York. The Associated Press’ enforcement editor, Julie Pace, is among the board’s caller members.

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