2020 Pulitzer Prize: Photojournalists from Jammu and Kashmir honored in Photography

Posted by Freejobalert May 06, 2020 09:28 IST

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Recent News: The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced by its administrator, Dana Kennedy, in 15 journalistic categories and 7 Book, Drama, and Music categories via video-conference on May 4, 2020, at Columbia University in New York through the COVID-19 epidemic.

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  • Photojournalists from Jammu and Kashmir have been honored in the category of feature photography at the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commendable work during the ongoing Closed in the region after the removal of Section 370 in August 2019.
  • Three photojournalists from the Associated Press (AP) Mukhtar Khan, Yasin Dar and Channi Anand, along with the general public life of the valley, had also brought photographs of protesters and security forces to the world.
  • The New York Times has received the most 3 awards for highlighting issues such as corruption, law enforcement, and racism in America.
  • Colson Whitehead has become the rare writer to consistently receive a Pulitzer for books, his novel about the brutal Florida correctional school during the Jim Crow era, ‘The Nickel Boys’ has been awarded the Narrative Award 2020.

2020 Pulitzer Prizes – JOURNALISM

Category Winner Country
Public Service Anchorage Daily News with contributions from ProPublica Alaska, USA
Breaking News Reporting The staff of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Investigative Reporting Brian M. Rosenthal of The New York Times USA
Explanatory Reporting The staff of The Washington Post USA
Local Reporting The staff of The Baltimore Sun Maryland, USA
National Reporting Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times
T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi of ProPublica
USA
International Reporting  The staff of The New York Times USA
Feature Writing Ben Taub of The New Yorker USA
Commentary Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times USA
Criticism Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times USA
Editorial Writing Jeffery Gerritt of Palestine (Tx.) Herald Press Palestine& Texas, USA
Editorial Cartooning Barry Blitt, contributor, The New Yorker USA
Feature Photography ChanniAnand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of Associated Press (AP) India AP Headquarter- New York, USA
Audio Reporting The staff of This American Life with Molly O’Toole of the Los Angeles Times and Emily Green, freelancer, Vice News USA

2020 Pulitzer Prizes – Books, Drama and Music

Category Winner
Fiction The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Drama A Strange Loop, by Michael R. Jackson
History Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, by W. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press)
Biography Sontag: Her Life and Work, by Benjamin Moser (Ecco)
Poetry The Tradition, by Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)
Music The Central Park Five, by Anthony Davis

About Pulitzer award

The Pulitzer Award is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States of America.
Established Since 1917
Headquarter New York, USA
President and CEO Gary Pruitt
Prize Money $15000 US Dollar

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