lThe Board of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes awarded this Monday, in its 108th edition, a special mention to “the brave work” of Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza since last October 7, as well as towards his colleagues who died while reporting on said conflict.
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“This year, the brave work of journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza is recognized. Under horrific conditions, an extraordinary number of journalists have died in the effort to tell the story of Palestinians and workers. in Gaza,” the organization detailed this Monday during the virtual broadcast of these awards.
Under horrific conditions, an extraordinary number of journalists have died in the effort to tell the story of Palestinians and humanitarian workers in Gaza
“This war (Gaza) has also claimed the lives of poets and writers (…) With the delivery of the Pulitzer Prizes to the categories of Journalism, Arts and Letters We commemorate the loss of invaluable frontline testimonies that illustrate human suffering“concluded the Board’s statement.
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In this category, the award went to the editorial staff of The New York Times for their “broad and revealing” coverage of the “lethal attack” by a faction of the Islamist group Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, as well as for its information on “the failures of the Israeli intelligence services and the deadly response of the Israeli Army in Gaza.”
The staff of The New York Times has won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
Read our reporting on the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the devastating toll of Israel’s assault on Gaza here. https://t.co/2eYbJBd5cL
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“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 in later generations, especially in writers and critics of color,” the organization explained.
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