The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were awarded Pulitzer Prizes on Tuesday for their separate investigations of President Donald Trump and his family.
The Times won the prestigious journalism award for a probeof the Trump family’s finances that “debunked his claims of self-madewealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges,” thePulitzer Prize Board announced during a ceremony at New York’s ColumbiaUniversity.
The Journal won for its coverage of Trump’s secret hushmoney payments to two women during his 2016 presidential campaign who claimedto have had affairs with him.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel won a Pulitzer for itscoverage of failings by school and law enforcement officials before and afterthe February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was honoured for its coverage ofthe October 2018 shooting at a synagogue in the city that left 11 people dead.
The Associated Press won a Pulitzer for internationalreporting for its coverage of the war on drugs in the Philippines.
Reuters was honoured for international reporting for itscoverage of atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
In other categories, “The Overstory” by RichardPowers won the Pulitzer for fiction and “Fairview” by Jackie SibbliesDrury won the prize for drama.
Special citations were awarded to soul legend ArethaFranklin for her contributions to music and to the staff of the Capital Gazettenewspaper of Annapolis, Maryland, which lost five employees in a June 2018shooting.