Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

Organizer

The Pulitzer Prizes (Columbia University)

Why it counts

Awarded annually since 1998 by the Pulitzer Prize Board, administered by Columbia University, for a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject in a US-based news organization

Held

annual, early May, with the Pulitzer Prize announcement

Reigning winners

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting · 2025

• Azam Ahmed source 1 · source 2
• Christina Goldbaum source 1 · source 2
• Matthieu Aikins source 1 · source 2