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Al Etihad
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Etihad
New York Times bags 4 Pulitzers, Washington Post wins for Trump story
6 May 2025 09:11 New York (dpa) US newpapers The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times were among the top winners on Monday of this year's Pulitzer Prizes recognizing outstanding Washington Post received the award for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the attempted assassination of then US presidential candidate Donald Wall Street Journal earned the Pulitzer for National Reporting for its exploration of tech billionaire Elon Musk's rapid ascent in US politics. The New York Times stood out with four wins. Its international team was recognized for reporting on the civil war in Sudan, while its local journalists were awarded for reports on rising drug deaths among Black communities in Baltimore, Maryland. The Times also took home the prize for Explanatory Reporting for a deep dive into US military operations in Mills, photographer for The New York Times, was recognized for his images of the Trump shooting attempt, including a photo capturing a bullet in mid-air. News agency Reuters took home the Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting, awarded for its probing journalism on the deadly impact of the drug Telnaes was awarded in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category after leaving The Washington Post following a dispute over an unpublished cartoon critical of Trump. Telnaes had been with the newspaper for 17 Everett's novel "James," a reimagining of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," was awarded the Pulitzer for Fiction. The Non-Fiction prize went to Benjamin Nathans for "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause," a chronicle of Russian dissidents since the 1960s. The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded for the 109th time this year. The winners were picked by a jury based at New York's Columbia
Express Tribune
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Ann Telnaes wins Pulitzer Prize after resigning from Washington Post over rejected Trump cartoon
Ann Telnaes, who resigned from The Washington Post earlier this year following the rejection of one of her political cartoons, has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. The cartoon in question depicted tech and media executives attempting to gain favor with former President Donald Trump, who had been re-elected president. The Pulitzer board cited Telnaes for 'delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years.' Her work has continued to appear via her independent platform on Substack. Amazing. Ann Telnaes just won a Pulitzer Prize for her work at The Washington Post --- which she resigned from after they refused to run this cartoon. — nxthompson (@nxthompson) May 5, 2025 In a statement at the time of her resignation, Telnaes said the cartoon was pulled by the Post for its criticism of billionaire executives 'doing their best to curry favor' with then President-elect Trump. The Washington Post also won a Pulitzer in the Breaking News category for its coverage of the 2024 assassination attempt on Trump, with Doug Mills of The New York Times recognized for his dramatic photographs capturing the incident. Other major Pulitzer winners included The New Yorker, which earned three awards, including a Commentary prize for Mosab Abu Toha's essays on Gaza, and The Wall Street Journal, honored for its reporting on Elon Musk, his political shift, and private dealings. In the Drama category, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won for Purpose, a play exploring generational legacy in a Black family tied to the Civil Rights Movement. A special citation was also awarded posthumously to Chuck Stone, a pioneering journalist and co-founder of the National Association of Black Journalists, for his groundbreaking civil rights reporting.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pulitzers Stick it to Bezos By Awarding Cartoonist Who Lampooned Him
The Pulitzer Prize board rebuked billionaire Jeff Bezos on Monday by awarding the Pulitzer for illustrated reporting and commentary to the former Washington Post cartoonist who quit the paper after her cartoon was scrapped. Ann Telnaes won the award, considered the highest honor in journalism, four months after she revealed that a cartoon showing Bezos and other tech billionaires genuflecting to Donald Trump was killed by the newspaper's then-opinions editor David Shipley. The Pulitzer board commended Telnaes for 'delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years.' The award recognized largely Trump-focused cartoons from throughout last year. Telnaes did not respond to an immediate request for comment. The award comes as the Post has gone through months of turmoil over Bezos' machinations, which has seen top reporters, columnists, and editors leave. Telnaes wrote in January that the decision to kill her cartoon, which she attributed to its point of view, was a 'game changer' that was 'dangerous for a free press.' The decision ended her 17-year tenure at the paper, which she joined in 2008. Shipley said in January that the decision stemmed solely from a desire to avoid 'repetition,' as the paper had already published and commissioned multiple pieces on the subject. Shipley left the Post in February after Bezos sought to refocus the section on 'free markets and personal liberties,' a decision Shipley opposed. The paper is currently searching for a new opinions editor. The award is Telnaes' second Pulitzer after first winning for her editorial cartoons in 2001. The Post also won a Pulitzer on Monday for its coverage of the July assassination attempt of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and was a finalist for its coverage of Hurricane Helene and Israel's deadly actions in Gaza. The Pulitzers are distributed annually by Columbia University and a board that includes top editors from the Boston Globe, The New Yorker, and Semafor. Trump has been locked in a lawsuit with the Pulitzer Prize Board over its 2018 awards to The New York Times and the Post for their coverage about Russian influence in the 2016 election, which the board affirmed in 2022. Trump claimed the board's affirmation was defamatory.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cartoonist Who Quit After Washington Post Wouldn't Run Bezos-Trump Cartoon Wins Pulitzer Prize
A former Washington Post editorial cartoonist won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday, four months after resigning from her position because of the publication's stance on her art critiquing billionaire media executives' subservience to President Donald Trump. Ann Telnaes won in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category for 'delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years,' according to the Pulitzer Prize announcement. The finalists in the category included Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson of The Boston Globe and Iran Martinez, Steve Breen, Jamie Self and Giovanni Moujaes of in San Diego. Telnaes' work also won her the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Likewise, she was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for illustrated reporting and commentary in 2022. Telnaes began working for The Washington Post in 2008. However, in January, she publicly parted ways with the publication after a dispute about her work, which she explained in a post on Substack. 'I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I've never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now,' she wrote. 'To be clear, there have been instances where sketches have been rejected or revisions requested, but never because of the point of view inherent in the cartoon's commentary. That's a game changer…and dangerous for a free press,' she warned. Telnaes published a draft of the cartoon in question on the Substack article. It depicted five individuals — including Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos; Facebook and Meta founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg; Open AI CEO Sam Altman CEO; Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong; and the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, illustrated as Mickey Mouse — bending the knee to a giant figure atop multiple steps, presumably President Donald Trump. Several of the individuals in the image were holding up money to the figure, while Mickey Mouse was completely kneeling on the floor. One of the individuals in the image was holding lipstick and puckering its lips as if to kiss the throne, the ground, or the giant figures' shoes. Ahead of the 2024 election, The Post announced that it would be breaking with the publication's decades-long tradition of endorsing a presidential candidate. The move resulted in a loss of 250,000 subscribers and multiple resignations at the outlet. While critics slammed the decision, arguing that no endorsement in this election was in fact an endorsement of Trump and his harmful policy proposals, billionaire WaPo owner Jeff Bezos, who also founded Amazon and Blue Origin, claimed it was necessary to thwart any public perception that the outlet is biased. 'We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate,' Bezos wrote in an opinion piece in October. 'It's a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn't see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose.' Trump has since applauded Bezos for his work at The Washington Post. 'I think a guy like Bezos has ... I've gotten to know him. I think he's trying to do a real job. Jeff Bezos is trying to do a real job with The Washington Post, and that wasn't happening before,' Trump claimed in March. HuffPost reached out to both Telnaes and The Washington Post for comment. The Washington Post also won a Pulitzer in the Breaking News Reporting category this year for its coverage of the July assassination attempt against Trump. Trump Personally Complained To Jeff Bezos About Amazon's Tariff Idea: Reports Jeff Bezos Face-Plants While Trying To Greet Fiancee After Blue Origin Flight Pulitzer Prize Winner Quits Washington Post, Slams Jeff Bezos Over 'Mistake' Jeff Bezos Overhauls Washington Post Editorial Pages, Opinion Editor Exits
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ann Telnaes, who quit Washington Post in protest, wins Pulitzer for 'fearlessness' in commentary
NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post who quit in protest early this year after editors killed her sketch criticizing the Post owner and other media chief executives working to curry favor with Trump has won the Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary. Ann Telnaes won for 'delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years,' according to the Pulitzer announcement on Monday. Her cartoon showed a group of media executives bowing before then President-elect Donald Trump while offering him bags of money, including Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Several executives, Bezos among them, had been spotted around that time at Trump's Florida club Mar-a-Lago. Telnaes accused them of having lucrative government contracts and working to eliminate regulations. Amazon also donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. When she quit the newspaper earlier this year, Telnaes that she'd never before had a sketch killed because of the point of view inherent in the cartoon's commentary. She called that a game-changer and dangerous for a free press. 'As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable,' Telnaes wrote on the online platform Substack in early January. 'For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post. I doubt my decision will cause much of a stir and that it will be dismissed because I'm just a cartoonist. But I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say 'Democracy dies in darkness.'' David Shipley, the newspaper's editorial page editor at the time, said in a statement after Telnaes quit that he decided to nix the cartoon because the paper had just published a column on the same topic. Shipley then resigned in late February after Bezos, in a major shift, directed that the Post narrow the topics covered by its opinion section to personal liberties and the free market. The fallout continued in March when a longtime columnist, Ruth Marcus, quit after she said the newspaper's management decided not to run her commentary critical of Bezos' policy. The Post, which made money during the first Trump administration, has been losing money in recent years, Its internal strife largely began last June when Sally Buzbee resigned as executive editor rather than accept a newsroom reorganization. Several prominent Post journalists have since left for other jobs. Bezos' decision last fall that the Post would not endorse a presidential candidate — after the editorial staff had prepared to support Democrat Kamala Harris — led to an exodus of subscribers.
