The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and establish the Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917.
The 19-member Pulitzer Board is composed of leading journalists or news executives from media outlets across the U.S., as well as five academics or persons in the arts. The dean of Columbia's journalism school and the administrator of the prizes are non-voting members. The chair rotates annually to the most senior member or members.
The 2022 Pulitzer Prize winners are:
Journalism
PUBLIC SERVICE
The Washington Post
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
Staff of the Miami Herald
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington and Eli Murray of the Tampa Bay Times
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Staff of Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y., notably Natalie Wolchover
LOCAL REPORTING
Madison Hopkins of the Better Government Association and Cecilia Reyes of the Chicago Tribune
NATIONAL REPORTING
Staff of The New York Times
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Staff of The New York Times
FEATURE WRITING
Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic
COMMENTARY
Melinda Henneberger of The Kansas City Star
CRITICISM
Salamishah Tillet, contributing critic at large, The New York Times
EDITORIAL WRITING
Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco of the Houston Chronicle
ILLUSTRATED REPORTING AND COMMENTARY
Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider, New York, N.Y.
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times
Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry of Getty Images
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters
AUDIO REPORTING
Staffs of Futuro Media, New York, N.Y. and PRX, Boston, Mass.
Books, Drama and Music
FICTION
"The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family," by Joshua Cohen (New York Review Books)
DRAMA
"Fat Ham," by James Ijames
HISTORY
"Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America," by Nicole Eustace (Liveright/Norton)
"Cuba: An American History," by Ada Ferrer (Scribner)
BIOGRAPHY
"Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South," by the late Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly (Bloomsbury)
POETRY
"frank: sonnets," by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION
"Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City," by Andrea Elliott (Random House)
MUSIC
"Voiceless Mass," by Raven Chacon
Special Citation
The Journalists of Ukraine
Keep up-to-date with publishing news: sign up here for InPubWeekly, our free weekly e-newsletter.
