Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for 2025 Journalism Excellence

2026 Pulitzer Prizes Awarded to Notable News Organizations

The Associated Press won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for an investigation into mass surveillance tools and their impact in China. This project, spanning three years and comprising thousands of pages of documents and numerous interviews, found that American companies help lay the foundations of the Chinese government's system for monitoring and policing its citizens.

In a separate award, Reuters won the prize for reporting on U.S. President Donald Trump's use of executive power. This work, which looked at how Trump has used the federal government and his supporters' influence to expand presidential authority and to try to punish his foes, was praised by the award judges.

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The Minnesota Star Tribune's coverage of last year's mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school took the prize for breaking news. Judges praised the "thoroughness and compassion" of the newspaper's reporting on a scene of carnage in its hometown. Two children were killed and more than a dozen others were injured as the shooter opened fire during the school's first Mass of the academic year.

The Pulitzer journalism awards are for work done in 2025 by U.S. news sites, newspapers, magazines, and wire services in text, photo, and audio. Video and graphics can be part of an entry package. Television and radio stations' websites also are eligible, if their entries focus on written material.

The Pulitzer Prizes were established in newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer's will and were first awarded in 1917. Winners receive $15,000, and the prestigious public service award earns a gold medal. Decisions are made by the Pulitzer Board, based at Columbia University in New York.