Pulitzer: award for AP photographers, including Argentine Rodrigo Abd, for coverage in Ukraine

The Associated Press (AP) was honored Monday with two Pulitze Prizes, including the most important of all, for its coverage of the war in Ukraine.

AP took home the top prize — Public Service — for the work of its journalists during the siege of the city of Mariupol and Breaking News Photography for the work of its photographers in the first weeks of the conflict, including Argentina's Rodrigo Abd, who had already won the award for his coverage of the Middle East.

In the first case, the jury highlighted the "courageous" work done to account for the "slaughter of civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine" from Mariupol, where AP reporters remained when the town was cornered and bombed by Russian forces.

The photography award, meanwhile, recognizes the "unique and urgent images" published by the photographers of this medium during the first weeks of the war, including those of the siege of Mariupol.

In Bucha, one of the award-winning photographs taken by Rodrigo Abd, from AP

Coverage of the Ukrainian war also earned The New York Times a distinction, which won the Pulitzer for international reporting, among other things for an eight-month investigation into the murder of Ukrainian citizens in the town of Bucha.

Other major U.S. media were also recognized by the jury, including The Wall Street Journal, for investigative work on conflicts of interest in federal agencies; The Washington Post, for the information of one of its journalists about restrictions on the right to abortion or Los Angeles Times for bringing to light a private conversation between political leaders of the Californian city in which they made racist comments.

War in Ukraine, (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The Post also won an award for journalist Eli Salow's writing on people affected by the pandemic, addiction or inequality, while the Los Angeles Times also won another award, in photography, for a report on a pregnant and homeless woman.

Among the big winners is also AL.com, an Alabama digital media that won two awards: one for columns on the state's Confederate history and its effects today and another for a series of reports on the bad practices of a local police force.

He shared that local information award with a reporter from Mississippi Today for her investigation into the diversion of aid by a former governor to benefit his family and friends.

Source EFE