The Times, New Yorker win joint Pulitzer

And in a surprise pick, the rapper Kendrick Lamar received the prize for music

Pulitzer Prizes were awarded Monday to the news organisations that drove two of the biggest stories of the year: the high-stakes investigation into President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia, and the consequential reckoning about the treatment of women by powerful men.

The prize for public service, considered the most prestigious of the Pulitzers, went to The New York Times and the New Yorker magazine for their revelations of sexual harassment and abuse that had gone on, unheeded and unpunished, in the spheres of Hollywood, politics, the media and Silicon Valley.

The national reporting prize went to The Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of Trump’s possible ties to Russia — a recognition of two journalism stalwarts that exposed the hidden activities of the Trump White House while withstanding much presidential ire.

And in a surprise pick, the rapper Kendrick Lamar received the prize for music for his pointed and defiant album, DAMN .It was the first time that a musician outside the classical discipline or jazz had won the award since it was first handed out in 1943.

Photography prizes went to Reuters, for images of the violence in Myanmar, and to Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Virginia, who captured an image of a car ploughing into a group of protesters at a rally that led to a national outcry over white supremacism.

In the artistic categories, the award for fiction went to Less, by Andrew Sean Greer, a globetrotting chronicle of an ageing novelist confronting middle age and travails in love.

New York Times As New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet looks on, staff writers Megan Twohey, left, and Jodi Kantor address colleagues after the team they led won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.