The Pulitzer Prizes, which are in their centennial year,
have been announced. The Associated Press has won the coveted award
for public service this year for its coverage of the condition of
trafficked migrants and slaves from Myanmar and the “severe labour abuses” in
the Southeast Asian seafood trade.
The AP’s series of stories on the issue resulted in the release
of 2000 slaves in 2015, punishment of the perpetrators and reforms
being effected in the US as well as other regions.
Note: The Pulitzer Prize, administered by the Columbia
University, is an award that recognises achievements in print and online
journalism, literature, theatre and music in the US. It was established in 1917
as per provisions in the will of Hungarian-born American Joseph Pulitzer, who
was a newspaper publisher.
Following is the complete list of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners:
a. Public Service – Associated Press
b. Breaking News Reporting – Los Angeles Times staff (For
coverage of the San Bernardino shooting and the subsequent terror
investigation.)
c. Investigative Reporting – Leonora LaPeter Anton and
Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times and Michael Braga of the Sarasota
Herald-Tribune (For stellar collaborative reporting by two news organisations
that exposed increasing violence and neglect in Florida mental hospitals.)
d. Local Reporting – Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and
Lisa Gartner of the Tampa Bay Times (For exposing a local school board’s
culpability in turning some county schools into failure factories, with tragic
consequences for the community.)
e. National Reporting – The Washington Post staff (For
revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to elucidate
how often and why the police shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely
to be.)
f. International Reporting – Alissa J. Rubin of The New York
Times (For thorough and stirring accounts of Afghan women who were forced to
endure unspeakable cruelties.)
g. Feature Writing – Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker (For
excellent environmental reporting of the rupturing of the Cascadia fault line.)
h. Commentary – Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe (For
extensive columns that examine the legacy of busing in Boston and its effect on
education in the city with a clear focus on the ongoing racial contradictions.)
i. Criticism – Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker (For
television reviews written with an affection that never blunts the shrewdness
of her analysis or the easy authority of her writing.)
j. Editorial Writing – John Hackworth of Sun Newspapers,
Charlotte Harbor, FL (For fierce, indignant editorials that demanded truth and
change after the deadly assault of an inmate by corrections officers.)
k. Editorial Cartooning – Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee
(For cartoons that convey wry, rueful perspectives through a sophisticated
style that combines bold line work with subtle colours and textures.)
l. Breaking News Photography – Mauricio Lima, Sergey
Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter of The New York Times (For photographs
that captured the resolve of refugees, the perils of their journeys and the
struggle of host countries to take them in.) and photography staff of Thomson
Reuters (For gripping photographs that follow migrant refugees hundreds of
miles across uncertain boundaries to unknown destinations.)
m. Feature Photography – Jessica Rinaldi of The Boston Globe
(For the raw and revealing photographic story of a boy who strives to find his
footing after those he trusted abused him.)
Literature, drama and music:
Fiction – The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
Drama – Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
History – Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New
America by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
Biography – Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William
Finnegan (Penguin Press)
Poetry – Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian (University of
Chicago Press)
Non-fiction – Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
(Doubleday)
Music – In for a Penny, In for a Pound by Henry Threadgill
(Pi Recordings).
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