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Bureau: New York
Bezos honorary chair, $42 million record, Mamdani publicly skipped, Streep and Hadid and Zendaya off the list — the absence register and the protest a block away are the night's legible artifacts.
Pablo Torre Finds Out wins the Audio Reporting Pulitzer for the Kawhi Leonard $28M Aspiration probe — the prize moves to independent podcasts in the cycle CBS Radio shut down.
Bess Wohl's Liberation wins the 2026 Pulitzer for Drama in a season when half the Broadway houses it ran in are dark.
Disney's eight ABC stations have twenty-three days to file early renewals — and Wednesday's earnings call is the first chance for the CFO to name the cliff in cautionary statements.
Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley wins Pulitzer Feature Writing for a first-person account of the July 4 Guadalupe River flood that killed his nephew.
The SF Chronicle won Pulitzer Explanatory for Burned — a series on how algorithmic insurance tools systematically undervalued California wildfire homes.
Julie K. Brown took the Pulitzer Special Citation for Perversion of Justice — a belated honor for the Epstein arc the board did not award in 2018 or 2019.