Pulitzer Prize

In Context

• A team of four Indian photographers from the Reuters news agency — slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave — have won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for their coverage of the Covid-19 crisis in India.

Pulitzer Award

• The  Pulitzer Award was established in 1917, named in honour of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. 
• It is administered by Columbia University and is awarded for newspaper, magazine and online journalism, photojournalism and literature annually across 22 categories. 
• Each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.

Indians who have previously won the Pulitzer

• Gobind Behari Lal: First from India to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937. He was the member of the Ghadar Party in America
• Geeta Anand
• Sanghamitra Kalita: managing editor of Los Angeles Times
• Siddhartha Mukherjee: Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his demystification of cancer in The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
• Sanghamitra Kalita 
• In 2020, Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of Associated Press won the Pulitzer in the Feature Photography category

Source: IE