The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners

About the Pulitzer Prize

Awarded for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition in United States

• Established in 1917
• Founder: Joseph Pulitzer – Hungarian Born – American
• Administered by: Columbia University, New York
• Prizes are awarded in 20 categories yearly.
• Award: A Certificate and $ 10,000 Cash Award

The winner in the public service category of the journalism is awarded a gold medal.

The Winners of 2016 are

JOURNALISM

• Public Service – Associated Press
• Breaking News Reporting – Los Angeles Times Staff
• Investigative Reporting – Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
• Explanatory Reporting – T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project
• Local Reporting – Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner of the Tampa Bay Times
• National Reporting – The Washington Post Staff
• International Reporting – Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times
• Feature Writing – Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker
• Commentary – Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe
• Criticism – Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker

LETTERS DRAMA AND MUSIC

• Fiction – The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
• Drama – Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• History – Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Biography – Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (Penguin Press)
• Poetry – Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian (University of Chicago Press)
• Nonfiction – Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick (Doubleday)
• Music – In for a Penny, In for a Pound by Henry Threadgill (Pi Recordings)