The Washington Post Picks Up a Pulitzer
Plus WaPo correspondent Joby Warrick gets one for his book, Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS.
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners were announced at 3 p.m. ET over a livestream, with prize administrator Mike Pride revealing that The Washington Post took home one of journalism’s most coveted awards.
The Post received the prize for national reporting for its reporting and analysis of every person killed in a shooting by a police officer in 2015.
In a statement following the award announcement, executive editor Martin Baron praised the collaborative nature of the project, as well as its real-world effect on FBI practices:
Deploying people in every corner of the newsroom, The Post delivered on a core journalistic mission–telling the public what it needs to know.
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