OTHER WINNERS
National (US) reporting:
The New York Times and The Washington Post for illuminating the ongoing investigation into possible contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian officials. The Public Service prize: The New York Times and the New Yorker won the public service prize for sexual misconduct reporting that galvanised the #MeToo movement. The citation notes that the reporting by the Times’ Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey and Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker has spurred “a worldwide reckoning about sexual abuse of women”. International Reporting: Reuters reporters Clare Baldwin, Andrew RC Marshall and Manuel Mogato for their reports on killings made during Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. Investigative Reporting: The Washington Post for its coverage of sexual harassment allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. Explanatory Reporting: The Arizona Republic and USA Today network for their multimedia reporting including podcasts and virtual reality that examined Donald Trump’s proposal to construct a wall along the USMexico border.
Breaking News Reporting: The Press-Democrat in Santa Rosa, California, for multimedia coverage of wildfires. Breaking News Photography: Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Virginia, for his image of a driver ploughing a vehicle through demonstrators.
Feature Photography: Reuters for its photographs that showed the violence suffered by the many thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar.
Feature Writing: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, a freelance reporter for
GQ, for her profile on Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.
Fiction: Andrew Sean Greer’s bestseller Less was awarded the fiction prize. Greer’s novel tells the comic story of a middleaged novelist. Drama: Martyna Majok for
Cost of Living.
Biography: Carolyn Fraser for her work on author Laura Ingalls Wilder, Prairie Fires.
General Non-fiction: James Forman Jr’s Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.
History: Jack E Davis for his book The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.
Poetry: Frank Bidart for his collection Half-Light.