The 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced as follows:
JOURNALISM
PUBLIC SERVICE
Winner: ProPublica
Finalists:
The Boston Globe, with contributions from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
The New York Times, for relentless reporting by Dave Philipps
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
Winner: Staff of The Washington Post
Finalists:
Staff of Associated Press
Staffs of The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Winner: Staff of Reuters
Finalists:
Christopher Weaver, Anna Wilde Mathews, Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty and Andrew Mollica of The Wall Street Journal
Staffs of Associated Press and FRONTLINE
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Winner: Azam Ahmed, Matthieu Aikins, contributing writer, and Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times
Finalists:
Alexia Campbell, April Simpson and Pratheek Rebala of the Center for Public Integrity; Nadia Hamdan of Reveal; and Roy Hurst, contributor, Mother Jones
Annie Waldman, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau and Maya Miller of ProPublica
LOCAL REPORTING
Winner: Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times
Finalists:
Katey Rusch and Casey Smith, contributors, San Francisco Chronicle, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program
Mike Reicher, Lynda Mapes and Fiona Martin of The Seattle Times
NATIONAL REPORTING
Winner: Staff of The Wall Street Journal
Finalists:
Jennifer Gollan and Susie Neilson of the San Francisco Chronicle
Staff of The Washington Post
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Winner: Declan Walsh and the Staff of The New York Times
Finalists:
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
Staff of The Washington Post
FEATURE WRITING
Winner: Mark Warren, contributor, Esquire
Finalists:
Anand Gopal, contributing writer, The New Yorker
Joe Sexton, contributor, The Marshall Project
COMMENTARY
Winner: Mosab Abu Toha, contributor, The New Yorker
Finalists:
Gustavo Arellano of the Los Angeles Times
Jerry Brewer of The Washington Post
CRITICISM
Winner: Alexandra Lange, contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab
Finalists:
Sara Holdren of New York Magazine
Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker
EDITORIAL WRITING
Winner: Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz of the Houston Chronicle
Finalists:
David Scharfenberg, Alan Wirzbicki and Marcela García of The Boston Globe
Opinion Staff of The New York Times, notably W. J. Hennigan and Kathleen Kingsbury
ILLUSTRATED REPORTING AND COMMENTARY
Winner: Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post
Finalists:
Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson, contributors, The Boston Globe
Iran Martinez, Steve Breen, Jamie Self and Giovanni Moujaes of inewsource.org, San Diego
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Winner: Doug Mills of The New York Times
Finalists:
Nanna Heitmann, contributor, Tyler Hicks, David Guttenfelder and Nicole Tung, contributor, of The New York Times
Photography Staff of Agence France-Presse
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Winner: Moises Saman, contributor, The New Yorker
Finalists:
Lynsey Addario, contributor, The New York Times
Photography Staff of Associated Press
AUDIO REPORTING
Winner: Staff of The New Yorker
Finalists:
Dan Taberski, Henry Molofsky, Morgan Jones and Marshall Lewy of Wondery and Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios
Staffs of WNYC and Gothamist
BOOKS, DRAMA AND MUSIC
FICTION
Winner: “James,” by Percival Everett (Knopf)
Finalists:
“Headshot: A Novel,” by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking)
“Mice 1961,” by Stacey Levine (Verse Chorus Press)
“The Unicorn Woman,” by Gayl Jones (Beacon Press)
DRAMA
Winner: “Purpose,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Finalists:
“Oh, Mary!,” by Cole Escola
“The Ally,” by Itamar Moses
HISTORY (2 PRIZES)
Winner: “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,” by Edda L. Fields-Black (Oxford University Press)
Winner: “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America,” by Kathleen DuVal (Random House)
Finalist:
“Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery,” by Seth Rockman (University of Chicago Press)
BIOGRAPHY
Winner: “Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life,” by Jason Roberts (Random House)
Finalists:
“John Lewis: A Life,” by David Greenberg (Simon & Schuster)
“The World She Edited: Katherine S. White at The New Yorker,” by Amy Reading (Mariner Books)
MEMOIR OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Winner: “Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir,” by Tessa Hulls (MCD)
Finalists:
“Fi: A Memoir of My Son,” by Alexandra Fuller (Grove Press)
“I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition,” by Lucy Sante (Penguin Press)
POETRY
Winner: “New and Selected Poems,” by Marie Howe (W. W. Norton & Company)
Finalists:
“An Authentic Life,” by Jennifer Chang (Copper Canyon Press)
“Bluff: Poems,” by Danez Smith (Graywolf Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION
Winner: “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement,” by Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press)
Finalists:
“I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India,” by Rollo Romig (Penguin Press)
“Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala,” by Rachel Nolan (Harvard University Press)
MUSIC
Winner: “Sky Islands,” by Susie Ibarra
Finalists:
“Jim is Still Crowing,” by Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson
“The Comet,” by George Lewis
SPECIAL CITATIONS
Chuck Stone
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