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Once again, for-profit metro papers are rare among the Pulitzer winners

With the exception of the Houston Chronicle, this year’s Pulitzers largely left legacy metro papers behind

May 5, 2025

Here are the winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

Details and links to this year’s recipients of journalism’s highest honor

May 5, 2025

‘Let it bring hope’: 2025 Pulitzer winners react

Widely regarded as the top honor in U.S. journalism, the Pulitzers recognize outstanding journalism. The winners reacted accordingly.

May 5, 2025

ProPublica is a back-to-back Public Service Pulitzer winner

The Pulitzer board honored ProPublica for a second year running, this time for exposing the fatal consequences of vague abortion exceptions

May 5, 2025

Amaris Castillo

The Baltimore Banner wins its first Pulitzer

The winning series — produced as part of a New York Times local investigations fellowship — explores Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis

May 5, 2025

Pulitzer Prize Board gives special citation to pioneering journalist Chuck Stone

He made an impact as columnist, university professor and co-founder of NABJ

May 5, 2025

Opinion | Talking to Jen Psaki about her new MSNBC prime-time show

The former press secretary talks balancing work and home, why her experience matters on air and what to expect from ‘The Briefing’

May 5, 2025

In his executive order on NPR and PBS, Trump leapfrogs Congress to target a private organization

The order calls on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an independent nonprofit, to stop funding NPR and PBS

May 2, 2025

Opinion | Q&A: Antonia Hylton on balancing field reporting with her new role as co-host of MSNBC’s ‘The Weekend: Primetime’

From Pulitzer finalist to co-host: Hylton discusses her new MSNBC role and how she’ll reshape weekend news with fresh perspectives

May 2, 2025

How accurate is ‘Conclave’ in depicting the papal election process? We fact-checked the movie

While the film gets some details right, it takes liberties with the process, including the cardinals’ interactions and rule-breaking

May 2, 2025

Loreben Tuquero

Introducing the public media executives selected for 2025 Poynter/CPB fellowship to strengthen editorial leadership

The program will provide 23 fellows with tools to uphold public media journalism’s highest editorial standards and successfully lead their stations

May 1, 2025

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