Pulitzer Prize board honours ‘courage’ of Ukrainian journalists

Journalists of Ukraine awarded a ‘particular quotation’ by prestigious Pulitzer board for protection of Russia’s invasion.

A grave, in front of destroyed apartment blocks, of a civilian killed in the southern port city of Mariupol. Grave board reads: 'Kolesnikov Anatoly Ivanovich', 1957.04.08 - 2022.10.03
Pulitzer Prize administrator says Ukrainian journalists have continued of their reporting 'regardless of bombardment, abductions, occupation and even deaths of their ranks' [File: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

The board of the celebrated Pulitzer Prizes has honoured Ukrainian journalists for his or her “braveness, endurance and dedication to truthful reporting” on Russia’s persevering with invasion of their nation.

The board awarded a “particular quotation” to the journalists of Ukraine as New York’s Columbia College on Monday introduced the 2022 winners of the annual journalism awards.

“The Pulitzer Prize board is happy to award a particular quotation to the journalists of Ukraine for his or her braveness, endurance and dedication to truthful reporting throughout Vladimir Putin’s ruthless invasion of their nation and his propaganda warfare in Russia,” stated prize administrator Marjorie Miller.

“Regardless of bombardment, abductions, occupation and even deaths of their ranks, they've continued of their effort to supply an correct image of a horrible actuality, doing honour to Ukraine and to journalists around the globe,” she added.

No less than seven journalists, together with three from Ukraine, have been killed since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbour on February 24, in accordance with the Committee to Defend Journalists (CPJ).

CPJ additionally says on its web site that it's investigating 5 different journalists’ deaths in Ukraine “to find out in the event that they had been work-related”.

“Scores extra have confronted shelling, taking pictures and detention as they work to supply very important details about the invasion. Russian journalists have been detained and threatened throughout Moscow’s crackdown on impartial Russian media, and lots of have fled the nation,” the group says.

The annual Pulitzers are essentially the most prestigious awards in US journalism, with particular consideration usually paid to the general public service award.

This yr that prize went to the Washington Submit for its protection of the siege of the United States Capitol in January 2021, when a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the constructing to cease Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory.

The New York Occasions scooped up essentially the most information Pulitzers this yr with three.

The newspaper gained the worldwide reporting class for exposing the huge civilian toll of US-led bombings throughout the Center East, together with in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

It additionally took the award for nationwide reporting for its investigation into lethal police visitors stops across the US.

In the meantime, the Pulitzer board made observe of the “difficult and harmful occasions for journalists around the globe”, noting that eight Mexican journalists had been murdered this yr whereas circumstances of assault and intimidation towards journalists in Afghanistan and Myanmar even have been reported.

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