(New York) The Newspaper New York Times and the Associated Press news agency were honored on Monday for their work on the war in Ukraine with the Pulitzer Prizes, the most prestigious awards in the American press.
One of the most important media in the world, the New York Times (NYT) and its journalists, won the Pulitzer for “international reporting” for their “unwavering coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including an eight-month investigation into the Ukrainian deaths in Boutcha and the Russian unit responsible of these killings,” Pulitzer administrator Marjorie Miller said in a video message.
Ukrainian prosecutors say Russian forces killed some 1,400 civilians in the Boutcha sector, north of Kyiv, where bodies were discovered after troops withdrew from Moscow in late March 2022.
Butcha has become the symbol of war crimes committed by the Russian military since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
As for the American news agency AP, it won the “public service” prize for a “courageous” report on the siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
A symbol of Ukrainian resistance, this port city in the south-east of the country was besieged and bombarded for long weeks by Russian forces at the start of the invasion.
AP also won a Pulitzer “breaking news photo” for its “unique” images from the start of the conflict 14 months ago.
Other renowned American media, the Los Angeles Times and the wall street journal were honored for their investigations into political and financial scandals in the United States.
The Pulitzer Prizes are administered by New York’s Columbia University in Manhattan, and last year Ukrainian journalists were rewarded for their “courage” with a special Pulitzer.