Journalism
Public Service
The New York Times
Breaking News Reporting
Staff of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.
Investigative Reporting
Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy of The Boston Globe
Explanatory Reporting
Ed Yong of The Atlantic and Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters
Local Reporting
Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times
National Reporting
Staffs of The Marshall Project; AL.com, Birmingham; IndyStar, Indianapolis; and the Invisible Institute, Chicago
International Reporting
Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek of BuzzFeed News
Feature Writing
Nadja Drost, freelance contributor, The California Sunday Magazine and Mitchell S. Jackson, freelance contributor, Runner’s World
Commentary
Michael Paul Williams of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch
Criticism
Wesley Morris of The New York Times
Editorial Writing
Robert Greene of the Los Angeles Times
Editorial Cartooning
No Award
Breaking News Photography
Photography Staff of Associated Press
Feature Photography
Emilio Morenatti of Associated Press
Audio Reporting
Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith and Robert Little of National Public Radio
Letters and Drama
Fiction
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Drama
The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall
History
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright/Norton)
Biography
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by the late Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright/Norton)
Poetry
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Music
Stride by Tania León, premiered at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City on February 13, 2020 (Peermusic Classical)
Special Citation
Darnella Frazier