A.P. Wins 2 Pulitzers for Ukraine War Coverage

The Associated Press on Monday won two Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the war in Ukraine, including the prestigious public service award, while an Alabama news website received two awards for local reporting and commentary.

The A.P.’s journalists were the last from an international news organization to remain in the Ukrainian town of 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.

AL.com, a news outlet in Alabama, 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 who examined how Alabama’s Confederate history has continued to affect the state.

The New York Times won the international reporting award for coverage that included daily reporting on the war as well as investigative reporting into Ukrainian deaths in the town Bucha.The Times also won for illustrated reporting and commentary, for a piece by Mona Chalabi in The Times’s Magazine examining the wealth of Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos.

The Los Angeles Times won the breaking news reporting prize for a its coverage of a leaked audio recording of a secret conversation between Los Angeles City Council members in which the officials mocked people in racist terms and disparaged other council members. The uproar prompted the resignations of two of the leaders involved: Nury Martinez, the City Council president, and Ron Herrera, the president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

The Los Angeles Times also won in the feature photography category. The photojournalist Christina House was awarded the prize for her images of a pregnant 22-year-old woman living in a tent on the streets of Hollywood and trying to navigate her situation.