WaPo, NYT, Reuters Win Pulitzers for Trump Coverage

The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for scrutinizing the Trump administration's sweeping, choppy cuts and changes to federal agencies, and the Associated Press won the award Monday for international reporting. A full list of winners can be seen here.

• The Post's coverage illuminated the fast-moving, sometimes opaque particulars of President Trump's drive to reshape the national government, and judges credited the Post with detailing what the changes meant for individual Americans, the AP reports.
• Reuters won the award for national reporting. Its work looked at how Trump has used the federal government and his supporters' influence to expand presidential authority and to try to punish his foes, the award judges noted. It was one of two awards for Reuters. Its reporting on the social media giant Meta won a prize in the newly revived category for beat reporting.

• The Minnesota Star Tribune's coverage of last year's mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school took the prize for breaking news. Judges praised the "thoroughness and compassion" of the newspaper's reporting on a scene of carnage in its hometown.
• Spanning three years, thousands of pages of documents, and numerous interviews, the AP project found that American companies help lay the foundations of the Chinese government's system for monitoring and policing its citizens.
• The Miami Herald's Julie K. Brown was given a special citation for her reporting, nearly a decade ago, that drew attention to Jeffrey Epstein's abuses.
• The Post also won the feature photography prize, for a visual essay on a family welcoming a firstborn as the child's father grappled with terminal cancer.
• The New York Times won three of the coveted prizes, including the investigative reporting prize for articles that revealed how much "Trump and his inner circle were enriching themselves through national security dealings," per the Times.

• Smaller outlets ranging from the Connecticut Mirror to the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out were also recognized in a challenging year for American journalism.
• In the last few months, the Post cut a third of its staff, CBS News announced it would shutter its nearly century-old radio service, the AP offered buyouts to over 120 journalists, and some regional newspapers also publicly struggled. CBS parent Paramount's acquisition of CNN has raised questions about what's next for those networks. Meanwhile, President Trump has continued to bash, and sometimes sue, outlets whose coverage he finds objectionable.
• "This is always a day of celebration in our communities, but perhaps never more so than today as we face tremendous" challenges, prize administrator Marjorie Miller said in a livestream announcing the awards.