The winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize
🏆 What are Pulitzer Prizes?
- Prestigious U.S.-based awards established in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer, administered by Columbia University.
- Recognize excellence in journalism, literature, and music composition.
🏆 Pulitzer Prize 2025 – Winners Table
Category | Winner(s) | Work / Description |
Public Service | ProPublica | On deaths of pregnant women due to delays in care under strict abortion laws |
Breaking News Reporting | The Washington Post | Coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump (July 13, 2024) |
Investigative Reporting | Reuters | Exposé on global fentanyl supply chain and regulatory failures |
Explanatory Reporting | The New York Times | U.S. failure in Afghanistan due to militia support |
Local Reporting | The Baltimore Banner & The New York Times | Fentanyl crisis affecting older Black men in Baltimore |
National Reporting | The Wall Street Journal | Elon Musk’s personal/political evolution, drug use, talks with Putin |
International Reporting | The New York Times | Sudan conflict, gold trade, foreign influence, and atrocities |
Feature Writing | Esquire (Mark Warren) | On a pastor/mayor’s suicide after digital exposure |
Commentary | The New Yorker (Mosab Abu Toha) | Memoir-style essays on war and trauma in Gaza |
Criticism | Bloomberg CityLab (Alexandra Lange) | On design and architecture of public spaces for families |
Editorial Writing | Houston Chronicle | On dangerous train crossings and calls for urgent policy action |
Illustrated Reporting | The Washington Post (Ann Telnaes) | Fearless and creative political cartooning |
Breaking News Photography | Doug Mills (The New York Times) | Photos capturing Trump assassination attempt with bullet mid-air |
Feature Photography | Moises Saman (The New Yorker) | Haunting images of Sednaya prison in Syria |
Audio Reporting | The New Yorker | “In the Dark” podcast: Haditha massacre investigation |
📚 Books, Drama, and Music Categories
Category | Winner | Work / Description |
Fiction | Percival Everett | James – A retelling of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective |
Drama | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | Purpose – Story of an African-American family’s civil rights legacy |
History | Edda L. Fields-Black | Combee – On Harriet Tubman and a large-scale slave liberation raid |
Biography | Jason Roberts | Every Living Thing – Biography of Linnaeus and Buffon |
Memoir / Autobiography | Tessa Hulls | Feeding Ghosts – A graphic memoir of three generations of Chinese women |
Poetry | Marie Howe | New and Selected Poems – Exploring mortality, holiness, and loneliness |
General Nonfiction | Benjamin Nathans | To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause – History of Soviet dissident movement |
Music | Susie Ibarra | Sky Islands – Premiered 2024, explores ecosystems and biodiversity through music |
Special Citation | Chuck Stone (posthumously) | For groundbreaking Civil Rights journalism and co-founding NABJ |
🏆 Pulitzer Prize – Static GK Table
Aspect | Details |
Established | 1917 by Columbia University, USA |
Founder | Joseph Pulitzer (as per his will) |
Awarded For | Excellence in Journalism, Literature, and Musical Composition |
Number of Categories | 21 (awarded annually) |
First Indian-origin Winner | Gobind Behari Lal (1937) – Science Reporting at Harvard's Tercentenary |
Notable Indian Winners | - Jhumpa Lahiri (2000, Fiction – Interpreter of Maladies) |
Updated : 5th Aug 2025 ; 6:22 PM IST