Reuters won the Breaking News Photo Award for its coverage of the October 7 attack on Gaza and the war.
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The war in Gaza featured prominently in Monday’s Pulitzer Prizes, which included a special award for journalists covering the Israeli-Hamas conflict.
The New York Times cited “extensive and revealing coverage of the deadly Hamas attack in southern Israel on October 7” and the “drastic and deadly response by the Israeli military,” leading to international coverage. It won the Pulitzer Prize in that category.
Meanwhile, Reuters won the Breaking News Photo Award for its “graphic and urgent” coverage of the October 7 attack and Israel’s response, and a special award went to “journalists and media personnel covering the Gaza War.” Ta.
“This war also claimed the lives of poets and writers,” the commission said. “The Pulitzer Prize recognizes the fields of journalism, art, and literature, and it shows us that a valuable record of the human experience has been lost.”
The awarding at Columbia University comes as New York University faces backlash for calling for police to remove pro-Palestinian protesters. Police blocked most media from the scene and threatened to arrest student journalists covering the incident.
In an article over the weekend, two editors of Columbia University’s student newspaper outlined the university’s “suppression” of reporting, including threats of arrest by police and demands from the university to hand over videos and photos.
Other awards honor American journalists’ reporting on immigrant child labor, racial disparities in the legal system, and gun violence.
Author Jane Anne Phillips won the fiction award for her novel “The Night Watch,” about a mother and daughter during and after the Civil War, and the nonfiction award went to Nathan Thrall’s “The Story of Abed Salama.” Japan: “Abed Salama’s Anatomy” received the award. The tragedy of Jerusalem. ”
The committee said: “A detailed account of life under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, told through the portrait of a Palestinian father who lost his five-year-old son in a fiery school bus accident that delayed Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams. He praised the report and the intimate description. Due to safety regulations. ”
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