Pulitzer News

The Pulitzer Prizes podcast features interviews with 2023 winners in Journalism and Books.

In this podcast episode, we travel to southern Virginia for a conversation with 2023 Fiction winner Barbara Kingsolver, who talks about her writing life, her farm life, and her prize winning novel, “Demon Copperhead.”

In the season finale of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2024 Fiction Prize winner Jayne Anne Phillips and 2016 Fiction Prize winner/Pulitzer Board member Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss writing about war, the transformative power of literature and the ways knowledge is passed from one generation to the next.

This week, the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast heads to El Paso, to revisit where 2023 Explanatory Reporting winner Caitlin Dickerson spent much of her time reporting on family separations at the border. She’s joined by Ginger Thompson, Pulitzer Board member and chief of correspondents for ProPublica.

In this episode, 2023 Fiction winner Hernan Diaz is in conversation with Pulitzer Board member and 2016 Fiction winner Viet Thanh Nguyen in New York City. 

In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2023 History winner Jefferson Cowie takes us to Eufaula, Alabama to talk through his Pulitzer-winning book, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power.

Mstyslav Chernov and two other Associated Press journalists arrived in Mariupol hours before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, becoming the only international journalists to remain in the city during its siege. Their reporting allowed the world to see horrors that otherwise would not have been captured. Chernov and his colleagues’ coverage of Mariupol, along with other stories documenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, won The Associated Press the 2023 Public Service Prize.

In the first episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, we head to Brookside, Alabama, where 2023 Local Reporting winners John Archibald and Ashley Remkus revisit their reporting about police corruption in this small municipality. They’re joined by Pulitzer Board Co-Chair Neil Brown of the Poynter Institute.

The six podcast episodes of Pulitzer on the Road will be released weekly beginning today, each featuring 2023 winners in Journalism and Books in conversation with Pulitzer Board members.

Prior to November 16, 2023's Pulitzer on the Road event in Austin, 2023 Fiction winner Hernan Diaz and 2023 Feature Writing winner Eli Saslow spoke to a large assembly of high schoolers at nearby Dripping Springs High School. Watch a brief recap here.