3 Photojournalists From J&K Win Pulitzer Prize

Three Jammu and Kashmir-based photojournalists, working with news agency Associated Press won prestigious Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Kashmir's lockdown after the abrogation of Article 370 last year.

Dar Yasin and Mukhtar Khan are based in Srinagar while Channi Anand is based in Jammu. 

Journalism

• Public Service: TheAnchorage Daily News, in collaboration with ProPublica
• Breaking News Reporting: The staff of theLouisville Courrier-Journal
• Investigative Reporting: Brian M. Rosenthal, The New York Times
• Explanatory Reporting: The staff of The Washington Post
• Local Reporting: Staff of The Baltimore Sun
• National Reporting: T.Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi, ProPublica and Dominic Gates, SteveMiletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb, TheSeattle Times
• InternationalReporting: The staff of the NewYork Times
• Feature Writing: BenTaub, The New Yorker
• Commentary: NikoleHannah-Jones, The New York Times
• Criticism: ChristopherKnight, Los Angeles Times
• Editorial Writing: JefferyGerritt, Palestine Herald-Press
• EditorialCartooning: Bary Blitt, The NewYorker
• Breaking NewsPhotography: The photography staff of Reuters
• FeaturePhotography: Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin, The Associated Press
• Audio Reporting: This American Life

Letters, Drama and Music                  

• Drama: A Strange Loop, by Michael R.Jackson
• History: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitutionin America, by W. Caleb McDaniel
• Biography: Sontag: Her Life and Work, byBenjamin Moser
• Poetry: The Tradition, by Jericho Brown
• General Nonfiction: The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art,Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, byAnne Boyer and The End of the Myth: Fromthe Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, byGreg Grandin
• Music: The Central Park Five, by Anthony Davis
• Fiction: The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead

Special Citation

• Ida B. Wells