New York Times receives Pulitzer Prize for 'exposing Putin's regime's predation'

The 2020 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting has been awarded to the New York Times for "exposing the predatory behavior of Vladimir Putin's regime," the Pulitzer Prize Board said in a statement. with the BBC.

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The organization said in a statement that the leading US newspaper was receiving the award for "a set of compelling stories, written at great risk, that expose the predatory behavior of Vladimir Putin's regime."

Prizes 2020 awarded eight articles and videos - about the assassination attempt on a Ukrainian official in Rivne, ordered from Moscow, about poisoning businessman Emelyan Gebrev in Bulgaria, on Russian interests in conflicts in Libya and the Central African Republic, and on the bombing of hospitals and other civilian targets by Russian aviation in Syria.

The Russian Embassy in the United States said on Facebook that Moscow views “this series of articles” as “an excellent collection of undiluted Russophobic fabrications that can be studied as a guide to creating false facts.”

The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for publications in newspapers, magazines and websites in the United States in various genres.

The Pulitzer Prize is awarded only for English-language materials originally published in the United States. Roman Badanin, editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of the Project, noted that two NYT materials repeat the facts previously obtained by Russian journalists in their investigations, writes "Voice of America".

Who else got Pulitzer

The most prestigious Service to Society Award was awarded to journalists from the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica for a series of stories about problems and violence in Alaskan police.

The Reuters photo award was awarded to the Reuters team for covering protests in Hong Kong.

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In 2020, against the backdrop of the development of podcasts, the prize was first awarded for audio reporting. It was received by the authors of an episode of the This is American Life podcast for reporting on the migration policy of the US Presidential Administration Donald Trump.

Writer Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for his novel about the mores of the Florida Correctional School Nickel Boys. Whitehead’s previous book, Underground Railroad, won the Fiction category in 2017.

In the nomination “Music” the opera Anthony Davis “Five from Central Park” won, telling about five young people who were unjustly convicted of sexual violence. (The Netflix series “When They See Us” was shot based on this story)

In parallel, there is a second panel that gives awards in areas not related to journalism - in categories such as "fiction", "US history", "biographies, autobiographies and memoirs", "poetry", "music" and "drama".

The deadline for nominations is January 25 of each year, so the Covid-19 pandemic did not have time to be reflected in journalists’ publications.

The New York Times, as the most authoritative, prestigious and powerful print and online media in the United States, collects a rich crop of Pulitzer Prizes almost every year.

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This year, in addition to international journalism, she received awards for investigative journalism (about the predatory conditions of loans to New York taxi drivers), and Nikole Hannah-Jones received a prize in the journalism category for the project “1619,” which outraged many conservatives, about the 400th anniversary of the institution of slavery in North America.

New York Times publications on Russia have received the Pulitzer Prize more than once throughout its history (some of them, as noted by the Walter Durante correspondence from Moscow in 1932, which questioned the reality of mass hunger during collectivization, were subsequently discredited; in 2003, the collegium recognizedthat Duranty’s articles hardly deserved a reward, but did not find in them signs of deliberate deception).

In 2017, NYT received a prize for materials on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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