The Pulitzer awarded two awards for Explanatory Reporting to Ed Yong of The Atlantic and a team of Reuters journalists that included Andrew Chung.
The Pulitzer board awarded a prize to The Atlantic's science reporter Yong “for a series of lucid, definitive pieces on the COVID-19 pandemic that anticipated the course of the disease, synthesized the complex challenges the country faced, illuminated the U.S. government’s failures, and provided clear and accessible context for the scientific and human challenges it posed.”
Yong told Poynter in an email, “It’s surreal. I wish that the stories I wrote had never been necessary, but I’m proud to have been able to help my readers make sense of a crisis that often defied sense."
In a tweet, Yong wrote he will be splitting the $15,000 prize money “between everyone who worked on my pieces last year—every editor, copy editor, fact checker, artist, and more. Even when individuals win Pulitzers, their work depends on a community. I want to honor mine.”
A Pulitzer for Explanatory Reporting also went to a Reuters team for an exhaustive examination, powered by a pioneering data analysis of U.S. federal court cases, of the obscure legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” and how it shields police who use excessive force from prosecution.
One member of the Reuters crew includes Andrew Chung, a correspondent at Reuters covering the Supreme Court and related issues. Andrew joined Reuters in 2014 after more than a decade at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, where he reported both domestically and internationally and was most recently the Quebec Bureau Chief.
The Pulitzer for International Reporting went to a Buzzfeed team that includes Indian American journalist Megha Rajagopaian.
They won for a series of clear and compelling stories that used satellite imagery and architectural expertise, as well as interviews with two dozen former prisoners, to identify a vast new infrastructure built by the Chinese government for the mass detention of Muslims.
Rajagopalan is an award-winning international correspondent for BuzzFeed News, based in London. She has been a staff correspondent for BuzzFeed News based in China and Thailand as well as in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and before that she was a political correspondent for Reuters in China. She has reported from 23 countries in Asia and the Middle East on stories ranging from the North Korean nuclear crisis to the peace process in Afghanistan. Her work has been translated into 7 languages, been taught in classrooms at Columbia and NYU, and was anthologized in 2018's What Future: The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology, and the Planet.
Yong told Poynter in an email, “It’s surreal. I wish that the stories I wrote had never been necessary, but I’m proud to have been able to help my readers make sense of a crisis that often defied sense."
In a tweet, Yong wrote he will be splitting the $15,000 prize money “between everyone who worked on my pieces last year—every editor, copy editor, fact checker, artist, and more. Even when individuals win Pulitzers, their work depends on a community. I want to honor mine.”
A Pulitzer for Explanatory Reporting also went to a Reuters team for an exhaustive examination, powered by a pioneering data analysis of U.S. federal court cases, of the obscure legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” and how it shields police who use excessive force from prosecution.
One member of the Reuters crew includes Andrew Chung, a correspondent at Reuters covering the Supreme Court and related issues. Andrew joined Reuters in 2014 after more than a decade at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, where he reported both domestically and internationally and was most recently the Quebec Bureau Chief.
The Pulitzer for International Reporting went to a Buzzfeed team that includes Indian American journalist Megha Rajagopaian.
They won for a series of clear and compelling stories that used satellite imagery and architectural expertise, as well as interviews with two dozen former prisoners, to identify a vast new infrastructure built by the Chinese government for the mass detention of Muslims.
Rajagopalan is an award-winning international correspondent for BuzzFeed News, based in London. She has been a staff correspondent for BuzzFeed News based in China and Thailand as well as in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and before that she was a political correspondent for Reuters in China. She has reported from 23 countries in Asia and the Middle East on stories ranging from the North Korean nuclear crisis to the peace process in Afghanistan. Her work has been translated into 7 languages, been taught in classrooms at Columbia and NYU, and was anthologized in 2018's What Future: The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology, and the Planet.
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