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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.
Gaza photographer Saher Alghorra wins Breaking News Photography Pulitzer for The New York Times — and remains in the war he documents.
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.
Two Investigative Pulitzers — AP for the Silicon-Valley-to-China-to-Border-Patrol surveillance pipeline, NYT for Trump's conflicts stack — name the executive and the technology together.
The Korean Nobel laureate's novel of the Jeju massacre held the finalist slot but the Pulitzer board awarded fiction to Daniel Kraus's Angel 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.
Sunday's Regina Caeli named the dead journalists; Wednesday's General Audience is the next scheduled sentence, with the Pachamama answer and the death-penalty reversal still pending.
CBS News Radio shutters May 22 — T-17 today — as the Pulitzer Audio prize moved to Pablo Torre's independent podcast in the same news cycle.
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.
Reuters won Pulitzer National Reporting for The Revenge of Donald Trump — a series documenting at least 470 retribution targets and the Retribution Tracker.
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.