The Post-Gazette received the prize in the breaking news category for its reporting on the synagogue rampage that left 11 people dead. Reuters won an international reporting award for work that cost two of its staffers their liberty: coverage of a brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims by security forces in Myanmar. The AP’s international reporting prize went to a team of journalists who documented atrocities and suffering in Yemen, illuminating the human toll of its 4-year-old civil war. Bell, the editorial cartooning winner, called out “lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration,” the Pulitzer judges said. ProPublica won the feature reporting award for cover of Salvadoran immigrants affected by a federal crackdown on the MS-13 gang.

Source: Huffington Post April 16, 2019 05:26 UTC