Pulitzer on the Road The Pulitzer Prizes

Hundreds of migrant parents and children were separated at the US-Mexico border under a Trump administration policy. Caitlin Dickerson writing for The Atlantic won for Explanatory Reporting – she talks with Ginger Thompson of ProPublica.

Hernan Diaz, winner for Fiction, meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a previous Fiction winner, in a New York Gilded Age mansion to discuss Trust, Diaz’s novel that explores family, wealth and ambition.

Jefferson Cowie’s book Freedom’s Dominion gives the history of white Americans fighting for the freedom to dominate others and won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for History. In Eufaula, Alabama, he meets with Kelly Lytle Hernandez, history professor at the University of California Los Angeles.

Mstyslav Chernov and a team of Associated Press journalists captured the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Mariupol. He talks about their award-winning work for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Nancy Barnes of the Boston Globe.
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Hear about how police targeted residents of small town Brookside, Alabama, in aninterview with 2023 Pulitzer winners for Local Reporting, John Archibald and AshleyRemkus at AL.com, and Neil Brown, Pulitzer Board member and president of thePoynter Institute.
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What makes a Pulitzer Prize winner? The Pulitzer on the Road podcast travels across the country to meet with authors and journalists to share the stories behind their prize-winning work.