2026 Pulitzer Prizes

[FileNotFound]

Dropping at 3 p.m. EDT today. Pretty sure this will be the 40th consecutive year I didn't win.

 

[WriteThinking]

Did Trump win one?

 

[HanSenSE]

Did Trump win one?

He'll say he should have.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[DanOregon]

They'll give one to the LAT for fire coverage, another to one of the MSP papers for ICE coverage, and everything else to the NYT.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

They'll give one to the LAT for fire coverage, another to one of the MSP papers for ICE coverage, and everything else to the NYT.

Southern California News Group is a finalist for the fire coverage. Minnesota Star Tribune staff wins.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

And NYT wins investigate reporting.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Pablo Torre and his staff are now Pulitzer winners.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

 

[DanOregon]

Just reading the summaries of the award winners and nominees reminded me how much last year sucked.

 

[WriteThinking]

Southern California News Group is a finalist for the fire coverage. Minnesota Star Tribune staff wins.

I'm "like"-ing this mostly on behalf of the Minnesota Star-Tribune.

 

[FileNotFound]

This story was SO hard to read, and so incredibly well done.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Washington Post wins for series on how DOGE and Musk ****ed over federal employees and for feature photography. Paper laid off photographer in The Purge. Hard not to see these as "**** you Bezos" messages.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Just reading the summaries of the award winners and nominees reminded me how much last year sucked.

Wait until you look back at this year.

 

[Here me roar]

Special Citations and Awards
2026
Julie K. Brown
A special citation is awarded to Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 and 2018 that exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s systematic abuse of young women, the justice system that protected him, and, over time, his powerful network of associates and enablers. Her Perversion of Justice series, published nearly a decade ago, revealed how prosecutors shielded Epstein from federal sex trafficking charges when he was first accused of abusing young women. She went on to document and give voice to the scores of victims who had been groomed and abused by him and others in his circle. Her work, and the release of the government’s Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world

 

[wicked]

She will never get the Woodward and Bernstein treatment, but I’m convinced her reporting is just as impactful.

 

[DanOregon]

It says a lot that Hollywood hasn't made a movie about Epstein yet.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Read two prediction articles that said Karen Russell’s new novel would win for fiction. It wasn’t even a finalist.

And Pablo just found out:

 

[FileNotFound]

She will never get the Woodward and Bernstein treatment, but I’m convinced her reporting is just as impactful.

Julie K. Brown is the baddest ass who ever badassed. She is my favorite working journalist, and at this point, it's not even close.

 

[wicked]

It says a lot that Hollywood hasn't made a movie about Epstein yet.

The bodies were still warm when they greenlit 9/11 and Boston Marathon bombing movies.