Reuters, New York Times win Pulitzers for coverage of racial injustice, COVID-19
On Friday, the Pulitzer Prize Board honored Reuters and the Minneapolis Star Tribune for their journalism on racial inequities in U.S. policing, while the New York Times and the Atlantic were recognized for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Star Tribune won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for its “urgent, authoritative and nuanced” coverage of the murder of George Floyd by police last May, while Reuters and the Atlantic shared the award for explanatory reporting. Established in 1917 by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer in his will, the Pulitzer Prizes are the most prestigious awards in American journalism and are awarded annually by New York's Columbia University.0
