In Context
- A team of four Indian photographers from the Reuters news agency — slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave — have won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for their coverage of the Covid-19 crisis in India.
Pulitzer Award
- The Pulitzer Award was established in 1917, named in honour of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
- It is administered by Columbia University and is awarded for newspaper, magazine and online journalism, photojournalism and literature annually across 22 categories.
- Each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.
Indians who have previously won the Pulitzer
- Gobind Behari Lal: First from India to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937. He was the member of the Ghadar Party in America
- Geeta Anand
- Sanghamitra Kalita: managing editor of Los Angeles Times
- Siddhartha Mukherjee: Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his demystification of cancer in The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
- Sanghamitra Kalita
- In 2020, Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of Associated Press won the Pulitzer in the Feature Photography category
Source: IE
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