For a distinguished example of audio journalism that serves the public interest, characterized by revelatory reporting and illuminating storytelling, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
Staff of The New Yorker
For their “In the Dark” podcast, a combination of compelling storytelling and relentless reporting in the face of obstacles from the U.S. military, a four-year investigation into one of the most high-profile crimes of the Iraq War–the murder of 25 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha.
Rehman Tungekar (left), Samara Freemark, Madeleine Baran, Parker Yesko and Natalie Jablonski of The New Yorker accept the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. (David Dini/The Pulitzer Prizes)
Winning Work
July 30, 2024
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Audio Reporting in 2025:
Dan Taberski, Henry Molofsky, Morgan Jones, Marshall Lewy and Staffs of Wondery and Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios
For “Hysterical,” a fascinating series that traced the outbreak of a mysterious and apparently contagious nerve disorder in upstate New York that largely affected young women, and the frustrating efforts to identify it.
Staffs of WNYC and Gothamist
For their revelatory investigation into decades of sexual assault of female inmates on Rikers Island.
The Jury
The Jury
Deborah Amos(Chair)
Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence, Princeton University
Robin Amer
Freelance Editor/Showrunner, Chicago
KalaLea
Producer, Pushkin Industries
Noel King
Host/Editorial Director, Today Explained, NPR
Blake Morrison
Investigative Projects Editor, Reuters
Nicholas Quah
Critic/Staff Writer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Joe Richman
Founder/Executive Producer, Radio Diaries
Winners in Audio Reporting
Staffs of the Invisible Institute and USG Audio
For a powerful series that revisits a Chicago hate crime from the 1990s, a fluid amalgam of memoir, community history and journalism.
Staff of Gimlet Media, notably Connie Walker
Whose investigation into her father’s troubled past revealed a larger story of abuse of hundreds of Indigenous children at an Indian residential school in Canada, including other members of Walker’s extended family, a personal search for answers expertly blended with rigorous investigative reporting.
Staffs of Futuro Media, New York, N.Y. and PRX, Boston, Mass.
For “Suave,” a brutally honest and immersive profile of a man reentering society after serving more than 30 years in prison.
Lisa Hagen of WABE, Atlanta, Chris Haxel of KCUR, Kansas City, Graham Smith and Robert Little of National Public Radio
For an investigative series on “no compromise” gun rights activists that illuminated the profound differences and deepening schism between American conservatives.
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.