Finalist: Staff of Associated Press
For fast, comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, including vivid details from the scene followed by the first reporting on gaps in security measures by the Secret Service and local law enforcement.
Nominated Work
Winners
Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting in 2025:
Staff of The Washington Post
For urgent and illuminating coverage of the July 13 attempt to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, including detailed story-telling and sharp analysis that coupled traditional police reporting with audio and visual forensics.
Breaking News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Reporting in 2025:
Staffs of The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer
For collaborating on comprehensive and community-focused reporting on Hurricane Helene, which killed more than 100 people and damaged 70,000 homes and businesses in the western part of the state.
The Jury
The Jury
Battinto L. Batts Jr.(Chair)
Dean and Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
Gina Chon
Senior Editor, Semafor
Nic Garcia
Regions Editor, The Texas Tribune
Paul Haven
Vice President and Head of Global News Gathering, Associated Press
Karen Hawkins
Story Editor, The 19th
Winners in Breaking News Reporting
Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz, California
For its detailed and nimble community-focused coverage, over a holiday weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses.
Staff of the Los Angeles Times
For revealing a secretly recorded conversation among city officials that included racist comments, followed by coverage of the rapidly resulting turmoil and deeply reported pieces that delved further into the racial issues affecting local politics.
Staff of the Miami Herald
For its urgent yet sweeping coverage of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex, merging clear and compassionate writing with comprehensive news and accountability reporting.
Staff of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.
For its urgent, authoritative and nuanced coverage of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis and of the reverberations that followed.
2025 Prize Winners
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
For chronicling political and personal shifts of the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, including his turn to conservative politics, his use of legal and illegal drugs and his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times
For a compassionate investigative series that captured the breathtaking dimensions of Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men, creating a sophisticated statistical model that The Banner shared with other newsrooms.
Mosab Abu Toha, contributor, The New Yorker
For essays on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel.
Alexandra Lange, contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab
For graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.