The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the Russian military’s siege of Mariupol, while the New York Times was awarded for its coverage of Ukraine.

Washington Post reporter Caroline Kitchener was honored for her coverage of the abortion issue after the US Supreme Court’s historic decision to give each US state the right to ban abortions on its own soil.

The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for exposing conflicting financial interests among officials at dozens of federal agencies. The Los Angeles Times was awarded in the category of “breaking news” for the disclosure of a recorded conversation with racist comments between officials of Los Angeles.

The Pulitzer Prizes, awarded since 1917, were established based on the will of the Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who died in 1911 and left a substantial bequest to the School of Journalism at Columbia University, USA.