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🏆 The Pulitzer Prize winners will be announced this afternoon from Columbia University in New York, recognizing some of the most consequential journalism produced over the past year. Follow along with Poynter on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram starting at 2:30 p.m. to find out who won!

🏆The Roy Peter Clark Prize for Excellence in Short Writing, sponsored by The Poynter Institute, goes to Abdullah Hany Daher of Jewish Currents for “Dispatches from Gaza” jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...

🏆The Robert G. McGruder Diversity Leadership Award, sponsored by McClatchy Media, goes to Sarah Glover of WHYY

🏆The Punch Sulzberger Prize for Innovation in Journalism, sponsored by The New York Times, goes to Staff, The Baltimore Banner for “Missing the Bus: How Baltimore failed a generation of students struggling to get to school” www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

🏆The Mike Royko Award for Commentary and Column Writing, sponsored by the Chicago Tribune, goes to Yvonne Abraham of The Boston Globe for “Torment and Trial” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/04/m...

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🏆The Dori J. Maynard Justice Award goes to Ginger Thompson, Doris Burke of ProPublica for “Sick in a Hospital Town” This award is sponsored by The O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism, Marquette University projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

🏆The Deborah Howell Award for Writing Excellence goes to Emily Baumgaertner Nunn of The New York Times for “The Girls on the Blade” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...

🏆The Cronkite School First Amendment Prize, sponsored by The Walter Cronkite School, goes to Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo of The Wall Street Journal for “Exposing Trump's Secrets and Epstein's Files” www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

🏆The Poynter Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on Poverty goes to Ryan Caron King and Julianne Varacchi of Connecticut Public Television for “Where Then Shall We Go?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fJq...

🏆The Poynter Journalism Prize for Excellence in Climate Change Reporting, sponsored by The Hennecke Family Foundation, goes to Staff at The Washington Post for “Floods Above” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🏆The Frank A. Blethen Award for Local Accountability Reporting, sponsored by The Seattle Times, goes to Robert Lewis, Lauren Hepler of CalMatters for “License to Kill” calmatters.org/investigatio...

🏆The Batten Medal, sponsored by Editors from the former Knight Ridder, goes to USA Today Network Ohio and Staff at the Chicago Tribune. USA Today Network Ohio, Vicious: An investigation into how Ohio law fails thousands of dog attack victims www.cincinnati.com/story/news/c...

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It started out as a story that writer Sarah Topol planned to do relatively quickly. Instead, it took a year and a half, hundreds records, and interviews with many Russian military deserters. The result was a powerful profile of the journey of a soldier who deserted, escaping the war in Ukraine.

Tonight, Poynter honors Dean Baquet with the Distinguished Service to Journalism Award! 🌟 Baquet, the former Executive Editor of and a Pulitzer Prize winner, led the Times newsroom through a period of immense digital change and groundbreaking national coverage. @nytimespr.bsky.social

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