NEW YORK: and were awarded Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for their separate investigations of President and his family. The Times won the journalism award for explanatory reporting for its probe of the Trump family’s finances that “debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges,” the Board announced during a ceremony at New York’s Columbia University.
Coverage of Trump’s secret hush money payments to two women during his 2016 presidential campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him earned the Journal a national reporting nod.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel won the Pulitzer for public service for its coverage of failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In the breaking news category, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was honoured for its coverage of the October 2018 shooting at a synagogue in the city.
The Associated Press won a Pulitzer for international reporting for its coverage of the war in . Reuters was honoured for international reporting for its coverage of atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in .