AP, Reuters, Minnesota Star Tribune among Pulitzer winners for 2025 work
NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for an investigation into mass surveillance tools and their impact in China; Reuters won the award on Monday for its reporting on US President Donald Trump’s use of executive authority.
The AP project, spanning three years, thousands of pages of documents and scores of interviews, found that American companies helped lay the foundations for the Chinese government’s system of monitoring and monitoring its citizens.
Other stories included a look at how Washington, across presidential administrations, has allowed tech companies and Beijing to bypass regulations aimed at blocking China’s access to certain materials, such as advanced computer chips.
The award jury said Reuters’ study examined how Trump used the influence of the federal government and his supporters to expand presidential authority and punish his enemies.
It was one of two awards received by Reuters. His reporting on social media giant Meta won an award in the newly revived beat reporting category.
Minnesota Star Tribune’s coverage of last year’s service Shooting at Catholic school in Minneapolis received the breaking news award.
The judges praised the “rigor and compassion” of the paper’s reporting of a massacre scene in his hometown. Two children died and more than a dozen people were injured when the attacker opened fire at the first service of school of your academic year. It was later determined that the attacker died due to an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The Pulitzer’s announcement, which was livestreamed and usually follows a dinner later in the year, came a little more than a week after the gunman. ran into a security checkpoint And mutual gunfire with Secret Service agents outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, another major event for US journalists. man now He is accused of attempting to assassinate TrumpHe attended the event for the first time as president.
Pulitzer Prizes for journalism are given to works carried out in the fields of text, photography and sound by US news sites, newspapers, magazines and news services in 2025. Video and graphics can be part of an introductory package. Television and radio station websites may also be suitable if their applications focus on written material.
Separately, Monday’s awards also recognized books, music and theatre.
The Pulitzer Prizes were created in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and were first awarded in 1917. Winners receive $15,000 and a prestigious public service award gold medal.
Decisions are made by the Pulitzer Board at Columbia University in New York. Associated Press editor-in-chief Julie Pace is among the board members new members.
