MANILA – International newswire Reuters won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their pieces on extrajudicial deaths since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office in 2016.
Reporters Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato were recognized “for relentless reporting that exposed the brutal killing campaign behind Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs,” the Pulitzer Prizes announced on its website.
The journalists “demonstrated” how police participated in unlawful killings in the Philippine government’s war on drugs, said Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen Adler.
“In a year in which many Pulitzers were rightly devoted to US domestic matters, we’re proud at Reuters to shine a light on global issues of profound concern and importance,” Adler said.
Reuters also won a Pulitzer in feature photography for documenting the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
This was the first time Reuters won two Pulitzer prizes in a year.
Meanwhile The New York Times and The Washington Post shared the Pulitzer for Public Service for reporting on the culture of sexual harassment in America and the investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 US elections.
Twelve-time Grammy award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar also created history as the first rapper to win a Pulitzer for his fourth studio album “DAMN.”
Other 2018 winners include The Press-Democrat (Breaking News Reporting); The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network (Explanatory Reporting); The Cincinnati Enquire (Local Reporting); Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (Feature Writing); John Archibald (Commentary); Jerry Saltz (Criticism); Abdue Dominick (Editorial Writing); Jake Halpern (Editorial Cartooning);
Ryan Kelly (Breaking News Photography); Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Fiction); Cost of Living by Martyna Majok (Drama); The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis (History); Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Biography); Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, by Frank Bidart (Poetry); and Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. (General Non-fiction)./PN
