The cover-up of the deadly attacks as well as the investigations into Donald Trump are the two main reasons why news teams are being awarded this year's Pulitzer. From the local American newspaper Capital gazette to the Associated Press and from Pittsburgh Post Gazette up to them New York Times This year's winners of the most important journalism award in the USA are honored for the way they covered events that became world news.
Award Pulitzer Prize was awarded posthumously to Aretha Franklin for her "indelible contribution to American music and culture."
Its reporters in Annapolis, Maryland Capital gazette did not celebrate the award, but hugged in honor of the memory of their five colleagues who were killed during an armed attack on the newspaper's offices in June 2018. Although this was the bloodiest attack on journalists, the newspaper the next day it was released as scheduled. A man who has pleaded not guilty has been charged with the attack, although he allegedly had previous publications.
The newspaper was awarded for covering the attack on a Pennsylvania synagogue last October that resulted in 11 people losing their lives Pittsburgh Post Gazette, while her reportage also received an award South Florida Sun Sentinel for the deadly attack in February 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with 17 dead.
Thanks to Τ Donald Trump two important publications won Pulitzer Prizes. The newspaper New York Times was distinguished for her report on the president's taxes but also for her general articles, while the Wall Street Journal was honored for revealing that the president during his election campaign redeemed the silence of two of his ex-girlfriends.
About the war brutality in Yemen the The Washington Post received an award for a photojournalism and the Associated Press for news coverage. Reuters was honored for its report on the killing of ten Rohingya men by Buddhist monks and security forces, and received another award for its photo report of Central American immigrants seeking refuge in the United States.
- With information from BBC, The Guardian Greek translation: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ.