The Board of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes In its 108th edition, it awarded a special mention to “the brave work” of the Palestinian journalists who have been covering the war in Gaza since last October 7, as well as their colleagues who died while reporting on said conflict.
“This year, the brave work of the journalists and media workers who cover the war in Gaza. “In horrific conditions, an extraordinary number of journalists have died in the effort to tell the story of Palestinians and humanitarian workers in Gaza,” The organization detailed this Monday during the virtual broadcast of these awards.
The Pulitzer Prizes, awarded by Columbia University (New York) to the most select journalism, books, theater and music, expressed this Monday that they had previously recognized the work of journalists in wars such as those in Ukraine or Afghanistan. and that this special mention goes further due to its echo in other fields.
“This war (Gaza) has also claimed the lives of poets and writers (…) With the awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes to the categories of Journalism, Arts and Letters we commemorate the loss of invaluable testimonies on the front lines that illustrate the suffering human”concluded the Board’s statement.
Among all the Pulitzer awards in journalistic categories, the war in Gaza was also present in other sections such as the one that honors the best of international journalism.
In this category, the award went to the editorial staff of The New York Times for their “broad and revealing” coverage of “lethal attack” of a faction of the Islamist group Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, as well as for his information about “the failures of the Israeli intelligence services and the deadly response of the Israeli Army in Gaza.”
On the other hand, the special mention of Palestinian journalists was accompanied by another recognition of the same type to the American writer and journalist Greg Tate (1957-2021), an icon in the media environment of African-American culture.
“His language, drawn from literature, academia, popular culture and hip hop, was as influential as the content of his ideas. “His aesthetic innovations and intellectual originality, especially in his pioneering critique of hip hop, continued to influence later generations, especially writers and critics of color.”explained the organization.
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Source: Gestion
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