And the winners are…

For nearly three weeks, journalists from The Associated Press were the only non-Ukrainian reporters on the ground covering Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

Yesterday, those journalists won the Pulitzer Prizes’ top honor, the Public Service award, for their coverage of Maripoul as they tried to escape the country. The AP also won a breaking news photography Pulitzer for its coverage in Ukraine.

🏆 Background: The Pulitzers are considered to be the most prestigious awards in journalism, and have been awarded every year by Columbia University since 1917. Honors in Books, Drama, and Music are also given.

Other national publications that won this year include the WSJ, the LA Times, and the NY Times.

• One out-of-the-ordinary winner was the NYT’s “9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth,” a purposefully tongue-in-cheek look at how crazy-rich Bezos is (one of the illustrations, titled “Let Them Eat Cake,” represented Bezos’ wealth via slices of cake).

📚 Books win, too: The fiction prize was given to two books – Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, a modern retelling of the Dickens masterpiece David Copperfield, and Hernan Diaz’s Trust, a 1920s New York story exploring class, power, and capitalism.

• On the nonfiction front, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice won the nonfiction general prize, while the biography nonfiction award went to Beverly Gage’s G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.