On Monday, May 4, 2020, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

Administrator Dana Canedy announced the winners from her home, explaining how “in difficult times, the Pulitzer prizes are more important than ever.”

I present to you the 104th Pulitzer Prize class:

Journalism

Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY

Investigative Reporting: Brian M. Rosenthal, The New York Times

Explanatory Reporting: Staff of The Washington Post

Local Reporting: Staff of The Baltimore Sun

National Reporting (two winners): T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi of ProPublica & Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker, And Lewis Kamb

International Reporting: Staff of The New York Times (Russia)

Feature Writing: Ben Taub, The New Yorker

Commentary: Nikole Hannah-Jones

Criticism: Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times

Editorial Writing: Jeffery Gerritt, The Palestine Herald-Press

Editorial Cartooning: Barry Blitt, Contributor, The New Yorker

Breaking News Photography: The Photography Staff of Reuters

Feature Photography: Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin, Associated Press

Audio Journalism (Inaugural): This American Life with Molly O’Toole of The Los Angeles Times and Emily Green of Vice News for “The Out Crowd”

Public Service: Anchorage Daily News in Collaboration With ProPublica

Arts and Letters

Drama: “A Strange Loop” By Michael R. Jackson

History: “Sweet Taste Of Liberty: A True Story Of Slavery And Restitution In America” by W. Caleb McDaniel

Biography: “Sontag: Her Life And Work” by Benjamin Moser

Poetry: “The Tradition” by Jericho Brown

General Nonfiction: “The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care” by Anne Boyer & “The End Of The Myth: From The Frontier To The Border Wall in the Mind Of America” by Greg Grandin

Music: “The Central Park Five” by Anthony Davis

Fiction: “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead

Special Citation

Ida B. Wells for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.