Donald Trump’s assassination attempt and the ravages of wars in Sudan and Gaza dominated the Pulitzer prizes, annual American press and literature awards given on Monday by Columbia University in New York. More prestigious awards for American journalism, the Pulitzer awards have rewarded the work of the teams of Washington Post for their coverage “Bright and urgently” Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on July 13 during a meeting in Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump’s images, injured in his ear, blood flowing on the face and raised fists, had gone around the world. The Pulitzer Committee praised the “Detailed account” and the «fine analyse» By the post of this event in the middle of the presidential campaign, won by the Republican. The question of the right to voluntary pregnancy interruption (abortion), at the heart of the American campaign, earned the Pulitzer media for public service journalism.
Propublica had reported in September the death of a 28 -year -old woman, Amber Thurman, in a hospital in Georgia in August 2022, attributing him to a lack of care caused by the restrictive laws on abortion in this state. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris deplored the death of Amber Thurman, incriminating the decline in women’s rights orchestrated by Donald Trump.
Still in the United States, the Reuters news agency has won the category of “Investigation journalism” for his work “bold” on laws “Laxists” Having allowed fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, responsible for many overdoses in North American soil, to sell itself at a low price. In the arts, the author Percival Everett won the pulitzer for the best novel with «James»work that returns to the classic “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn” of Mark Twain for “Illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy”according to the committee.
“Hope” and “Humanity”
In the category best international report, the committee rewarded the work of the New York Times and its reporter Declan Walsh for their coverage of the bloody conflict in Sudan, in particular on the illicit trade of gold and regional negotiations in the heart of local clashes. The Pulitzer are overseen by Columbia University, the epicenter of Propalestinian demonstrations on American campuses but today in full controversy following the arrest of foreign students, who had participated in the demonstrations against the war in Gaza and faced threats of expulsion from the country.
The Pulitzer Committee rewarded the Palestinian poet from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha, in the category “comment” For texts published in New Yorker magazine on “Physical and emotional carnage in Gaza”. These texts underline the committee, combine “Basic report and intimate memory” and thus testify to “The experience of the Palestinians” In the last year and a half of bombing.
“I just won the Pulitzer Prize in the +comments +category. That it brings hope, that it becomes a tale ”commented Mosab Abu Toha on social networks, citing the last words of «If I must die» (If I have to die), poem by the Palestinian author Refat Alareer, his great friend, killed in December 2023 in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
The Palestinian photographers of the France-Presse (AFP) agency were finalists in the photography category of «Breaking News» for “Powerful images” which testify to “The humanity of the Gaza population in the midst of large -scale destruction and losses”. The photographer of New York Times Doug Mills won the bet in this category for his photos of the assassination attempt by Donald Trump, including an image of a ball whistling in the air while the candidate, who has since become president, speaks to the crowd.
