Six Columbia alumni and two professors received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for their work spanning various forms of journalistic reporting, as well as feature writing. The announcement was made on May 5 online.
Fifteen alumni and one professor were finalists, as well. Read the full list below and learn more about this year's winners across all categories. Congratulations to all!
Winners | Journalism:
PUBLIC SERVICE
Anchorage Daily News with contributions from ProPublica, including Columbia Journalism School Adjunct Professor Charles Ornstein
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
Staff of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY., including Alfred Miller '15SEAS, '15JRN
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Staff of The Washington Post, including Scott Wilson '92JRN and Harry Stevens '14JRN
NATIONAL REPORTING
T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose, and Columbia Journalism School Adjunct Professor Robert Faturechi of ProPublica
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Staff of The New York Times, including Evan Hill '19SIPA and David Botti '08JRN
FEATURE WRITING
Ben Taub '15JRN of The New Yorker
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Finalists | Journalism:
PUBLIC SERVICE
The Washington Post, including Scott Higham '85JRN and Beth Reinhard '91JRN
The New York Times, including Lisa Friedman '94CC, Christopher Flavelle '09SIPA, and Anjali Singhvi '16GSAPP
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
Staff of The Washington Post, including Tim Craig '17JRN
Staff of The Los Angeles Times, including Leila Miller '17JRN
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Staff of The Wall Street Journal, including Khadeeja Safdar '10CC, '13JRN and Denise Blostein '11JRN
NATIONAL REPORTING
Staff of The Wall Street Journal, including Russell Gold '93CC
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Staff of The New York Times, including Jonathan Wolfe '13GSAS and Theo Balcomb '09BC
CRITICISM
Justin Davidson '90GSAS, '94SOA of New York Magazine
AUDIO REPORTING
Andrew Beck Grace, Chip Brantley, Graham Smith, Nicole Beemsterboer, and Robert Little '98JRN of NPR
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Finalists | Books, Drama, & Music:
DRAMA
Soft Power, by Columbia School of the Arts Associate Professor David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori
BIOGRAPHY
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, And Me, by the late Deirdre Bair '68, '72GSAS (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
Images: ProPublica.org, Jeff Faughender, Courier-Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times
