Ukraine War Coverage Earns Pulitzers for The A.P. and The Times

Coverage of the war in Ukraine dominated the Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, with The Associated Press winning two awards for its reporting and photography, including the prestigious public service prize, and The New York Times winning for a mix of news and investigative articles about the conflict.

The Times also won for illustrated reporting and commentary, for a piece by Mona Chalabi in The Times Magazine examining the wealth of Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos.

The A.P.’s journalists were the last from an international news organization to remain in the Ukrainian city Mariupol after it came under fire from Russian troops. They documented its fall before escaping. In addition to the public service award, considered the top prize, the news organization also won the breaking news photography award for its coverage.

The Times was awarded the international reporting prize for coverage that included daily reporting on the war as well as an eight-month investigation into the deaths of Ukrainians trying to flee from the town of Bucha that identified the Russian military unit responsible.

An Alabama news website, AL.com, received two Pulitzer Prizes. The organization was awarded the local news reporting prize for a series by John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald and Challen Stephens that revealed how the police force in a town, Brookside, inflated its revenue by aggressively increasing traffic citations and vehicle seizures.

AL.com also won the commentary prize for columns by Kyle Whitmire, a political columnist whose examination of Alabama’s Confederate history shows how it “still colors the present with racism and exclusion, told through tours of its first capital, its mansions and monuments — and through the history that has been omitted,” the Pulitzer board said in its announcement.