Winners of 2019 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
The Pulitzer Prizes is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
The Prizes are awarded every year in twenty-one categories.
Given below is the list of winners of Pulitzer Prizes for the year 2019:
| Category | Winners |
| Journalism | |
| Public Service | South Florida Sun Sentinel |
| Breaking News Reporting | The Staff of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| Investigative Reporting | Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times |
| Explanatory Reporting | David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times |
| Local Reporting | Staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La. |
| National Reporting | Staff of The Wall Street Journal |
| International Reporting | Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty of The Associated Press and
Staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo |
| Feature Writing | Hannah Dreier of ProPublica |
| Commentary | Tony Messenger of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| Criticism | Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post, |
| Editorial Writing | Brent Staples of The New York Times |
| Editorial Cartooning | Darrin Bell, |
| Breaking News Photography | The photography staff of Reuters, |
| Feature Photography | Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post, |
Letters, Drama, and Music |
|
| Fiction | The Overstory by Richard Powers |
| Drama | Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury |
| History | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight |
| Biography | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C. Stewart, |
| Poetry | Be With, by Forrest Gander |
| General Nonfiction | Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, |
| Music | Prism, by Ellen Reid, |
Special Citations |
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| Aretha Franklin and Capital Gazette, Annapolis, Md. | |