Pulitzer Prize-2025: The New York Times top Winner, Full List of Journalism Winners

Columbia University in the United States has announced the winners of the Pulitzer Prize-2025. The Pulitzer Prize is considered the most prestigious in the field of journalism. The awards honor outstanding contributions in 15 journalism categories and eight arts categories and highlight the most influential stories that shape public discourse around the world.

This year, The New York Times emerged as the top winner, bagging four major awards, while The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and The New Yorker also earned notable accolades for their investigative depth, breaking news coverage and narrative storytelling.

Pulitzer Prize 2025: Full list of journalism winners-

PUBLIC SERVICE :The Pulitzer committee honored ProPublica for the work of Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz for what it called “urgent reporting about pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgently needed care for fear of violating vague ‘life of the mother’ exceptions in states with strict abortion laws.”

From left: Cassandra Jaramillo, Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, reporters on the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Life of the Mother” series; editor Alexandra Zayas; and Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg. It is the eighth Pulitzer for ProPublica. Credit: ProPublica

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING : The Washington Post won for its “illuminating coverage of the July 13 attempt to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump,” the committee said.

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: The staff of Reuters won for its “boldly reported exposé of lax regulation in the U.S. and abroad that makes fentanyl, one of the world’s deadliest drugs, inexpensive and widely available to users in the United States.”

EXPLANATORY REPORTING: The Pulitzer committee honored Azam Ahmed, Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times and Matthieu Aikins for “an authoritative examination of how the United States sowed the seeds of its own failure in Afghanistan, primarily by supporting murderous militia that drove civilians to the Taliban.”

LOCAL REPORTING: Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times won for a “compassionate investigative series that captured the breathtaking dimensions of Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men,” the committee said.

NATIONAL REPORTING: The Pulitzer committee honored The Wall Street Journal for “chronicling political and personal shifts of the richest person in the world, Elon Musk.”

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: Declan Walsh and the staff of The New York Times were honored for their “revelatory investigation of the conflict in Sudan, including reporting on foreign influence and the lucrative gold trade fueling it, and chilling forensic accounts of the Sudanese forces responsible for atrocities and famine,” the committee said.

FEATURE WRITING: The Pulitzer committee honored Mark Warren contributor, Esquire for “a sensitive portrait of a Baptist pastor and small town mayor who died by suicide after his secret digital life was exposed by a right-wing news site.”

COMMENTARY: Mosab Abu Toha contributor, The New Yorker was honored for “essays on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel,” the committee said.

CRITICISM: The committee highlighted Alexandra Lange contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab “graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.”

EDITORIAL WRITING: Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz of The Houston Chronicle Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz of The Houston Chronicle won for “a powerful series on dangerous train crossings that kept a rigorous focus on the people and communities at risk as the newspaper demanded urgent action,” the committee said.

ILLUSTRATED REPORTING AND COMMENTARY: Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post won for “delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity — and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years.”

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY : The Pulitzer committee honored Doug Mills of The New York Times for “a sequence of photos of the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, including one image that captures a bullet whizzing through the air as he speaks.”

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY : Moises Saman contributor, The New Yorker was honored for “his haunting black and white images of Sednaya prison in Syria that capture the traumatic legacy of Assad’s torture chambers, forcing viewers to confront the raw horrors faced by prisoners and contemplate the scars on society,” the committee said.

AUDIO REPORTING: Staff of The New Yorker won for its “In the Dark” podcast, which the committee called “a combination of compelling storytelling and relentless reporting in the face of obstacles from the U.S. military.” It centers on the murder of unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha.

The Pulitzer Prize was founded by Hungarian-American Joseph Pulitzer. He was a newspaper owner. He established the Pulitzer Prize in 1904 to encourage excellence in journalism, arts and culture. He donated money to Columbia University's journalism department to administer the awards. The first awards were presented in 1917.