By PTI
NEW YORK: Slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui is amongst 4 Indians honoured with the celebrated Pulitzer Prize 2022 within the function images class.
Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave from the Reuters information company gained the award, introduced on Monday, for “images of COVID’s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place”, in response to The Pulitzer Prizes web site.
Their work was moved from the breaking information images class by the judges.
Siddiqui, 38, was on project in Afghanistan final yr when he died.
The award-winning journalist was killed in July final whereas masking clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar metropolis.
This is for the second time that Siddiqui has gained the Pulitzer Prize.
He was honoured with the celebrated award in 2018 as a part of the Reuters crew for his or her protection of the Rohingya disaster.
He had extensively lined the Afghanistan battle, the Hong Kong protests and different main occasions in Asia, Middle East, and Europe.
Siddiqui graduated with a level in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.
He had a level in Mass Communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia in 2007.
He began his profession as a tv information correspondent, switched to photojournalism, and joined Reuters as an intern in 2010.
Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times bagged the award within the Breaking News images class “for raw and urgent images of the US departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country”.
Yam’s work was moved from Feature Photography by the jury.
Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry of Getty Images additionally gained the award within the Breaking News images class for his or her “comprehensive and consistently riveting photos of the attack on the US Capitol”.
The Washington Post bagged the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism for its protection of the January 6 rebellion on the US Capitol.
According to the award committee, the newspaper “compellingly told and vividly presented account of the assault on Washington on January 6, 2021, providing the public with a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days”.
The Post’s in depth reporting, revealed in a classy interactive collection, discovered quite a few issues and failures in political techniques and safety earlier than, throughout and after the Jan 6, 2021, riot within the newspaper’s personal yard.
The compellingly advised and vividly introduced account” gave the public a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days,” stated Marjorie Miller, administrator of the prizes, in asserting the award.
Five Getty Images photographers have been awarded one of many two prizes in breaking information images for his or her protection of the riot.
The different prize awarded in breaking information images went to Los Angeles Times correspondent and photographer Marcus Yam, for work associated to the autumn of Kabul.
The US pullout and resurrection of the Taliban’s grip on Afghanistan permeated throughout classes, with The New York Times successful within the worldwide reporting class for reporting difficult official accounts of civilian deaths from US airstrikes in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pulitzer Prizes, administered by Columbia University and regarded essentially the most prestigious in American journalism, recognise work in 15 journalism classes and 7 arts classes.
This yr’s awards, which have been livestreamed, honoured work produced in 2021.
The winner of the general public service award receives a gold medal, whereas winners of every of the opposite classes get $15,000.
The intersection of well being, security and infrastructure performed a outstanding function among the many successful initiatives.
The Tampa Bay Times gained the investigative reporting award for “Poisoned,” its in-depth look right into a polluting lead manufacturing facility.
The Miami Herald took the breaking information award for its work masking the lethal Surfside condominium tower collapse, whereas The Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune gained the native reporting award for “Deadly Fires, Broken Promises,” the watchdog and newspaper’s examination of an absence of enforcement of fireside security requirements.
“As a newsroom, we poured our hearts into the breaking news and the ongoing daily coverage, and subsequent investigative coverage, of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse story,” The Miami Herald’s govt editor, Monica Richardson, wrote in a press release.
“It was our story to tell because the people and the families in Surfside who were impacted by this unthinkable tragedy are a part of our community.”
Elsewhere in Florida, Tampa Bay Times’ editor and vice chairman Mark Katches mirrored that sentiment, calling his newspaper’s win “a testament to the importance of a vital local newsroom like the Times.”
The prize for explanatory reporting went to Quanta Magazine, with the board highlighting the work of Natalie Wolchover, for a long-form piece concerning the James Webb house telescope, a $10 billion engineering effort to achieve a greater understanding concerning the origins of the universe.
The New York Times additionally gained within the nationwide reporting class, for a mission taking a look at police site visitors stops that resulted in fatalities, and Salamishah Tillet, a contributing critic-at-large on the Times, gained the criticism award.
A narrative that used graphics in comedian kind to inform the story of Zumrat Dawut, a Uyghur lady who stated she was persecuted and detained by the Chinese authorities as a part of systemic abuses in opposition to her group, introduced the illustrated reporting and commentary prize to Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider.
Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic gained the award for function writing, for a bit marking the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 assaults by a household’s grief.
Melinda Henneberger of The Kansas City Star gained for commentary, for columns a couple of retired police detective accused of sexual abuse and those that stated they have been assaulted calling for justice.
The editorial writing prize went to Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco of the Houston Chronicle, for a bit that referred to as for voting reforms and uncovered voter suppression ways.
The staffs of Futuro Media and PRX took the audio reporting prize for the profile of a person who had been in jail for 30 years and was re-entering the skin world.
The Pulitzer Board awarded a particular quotation to the journalists of Ukraine for his or her “courage, endurance, and commitment to truthful reporting during (President) Vladimir Putin’s ruthless invasion of their country and his propaganda war in Russia”.
“Despite bombardment, abductions, occupation, and even deaths in their ranks, they have persisted in their effort to provide an accurate picture of a terrible reality, doing honour to Ukraine and to journalists around the world,” the committee stated.
The Pulitzer Prizes have been established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper writer, who left cash to Columbia University upon his loss of life in 1911.
A portion of his bequest was used to discovered the School of Journalism in 1912 and set up the Pulitzer Prizes, which have been first awarded in 1917.
The 19-member Pulitzer Board consists of main journalists and information executives from media retailers throughout the US, in addition to 5 teachers or individuals within the arts.
The dean of Columbia’s journalism faculty and the administrator of the prizes are non-voting members.
The chair rotates yearly to essentially the most senior member or members.
The Pulitzer Board has additionally awarded a particular quotation to Ukrainian journalists.
The board recognised these of their residence nation masking the continuing disaster that started earlier this yr for “their courage, endurance, and commitment to truthful reporting during Vladimir Putin’s ruthless invasion of their country and his propaganda war in Russia.”
The board stated their reporting has supplied an correct image of the state of affairs within the nation and has accomplished honour to each Ukraine and journalists in all places.
