Pulitzer Prizes: 2025 Winners List

PUBLIC SERVICE

ProPublica

The Pulitzer committee honored ProPublica for the work of Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz for what it called “urgent reporting about pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgently needed deva for fear of violating vague ‘life of the mother’ exceptions in states with strict abortion laws.”

Finalists The Boston Globe; The New York Times

BREAKING NEWS

The Washington Post

The Washington Post won for its “illuminating coverage of the July 13 attempt to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump,” the committee said.

Finalists Staff of Associated Press; Staffs of The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

Staff of Reuters

The staff of Reuters won for its “boldly reported exposé of lax regulation in the U.S. and abroad that makes fentanyl, one of the world’s deadliest drugs, inexpensive and widely available to users in the United States.”

Finalists Staffs of Associated Press and Frontline; Christopher Weaver, Anna Wilde Mathews, Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty and Andrew Mollica of The Wall Street Journal

EXPLANATORY REPORTING

Azam Ahmed and Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times and Matthieu Aikins, contributing writer

The Pulitzer committee honored Mr. Ahmed, Ms. Goldbaum and Mr. Aikins for “an authoritative examination of how the United States sowed the seeds of its own failure in Afghanistan, primarily by supporting murderous militia that drove civilians to the Taliban.”

Finalists Alexia Campbell, April Simpson and Pratheek Rebala of the Center for Public Integrity, Nadia Hamdan of Reveal and Roy Hurst, contributor for Mother Jones; Annie Waldman, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau and Maya Miller of ProPublica

Malika, the mother of Ahmad Rahman, who went missing in 2016 after he was arrested by plain clothes police officers in Kandahar, a city in Afghanistan. A yearlong investigation by The New York Times, which won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting, found that General Raziq oversaw or participated in the forced disappearance and extrajudicial killings of at least 350 people in Kandahar.Credit…Bryan Denton for The New York Times

LOCAL REPORTING

Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times

Ms. Zhu, Mr. Thieme and Ms. Gallagher won for a “compassionate investigative series that captured the breathtaking dimensions of Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men,” the committee said.

Finalists Mike Reicher, Lynda Mapes and Fiona Martin of The Seattle Times; Katey Rusch and Casey Smith, contributors, San Francisco Chronicle, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program