For a distinguished example of audio journalism that serves the public interest, characterized by revelatory reporting and illuminating storytelling, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
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.
"You Didn't See Nothin" contributors (from left: Yohance Lacour, Erisa J. Apantaku, Bill Healy, Josh Bloch, Taka Yasuzawa, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Sarah Geis, Steven Jackson and Alison Flowers) accept the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting from Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong (far left). (David Dini/The Pulitzer Prizes)
Winning Work
February 15, 2023
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Audio Reporting in 2024:
Dan Slepian and Preeti Varathan of NBC News
For their relentless 20-year investigation that resulted in a wrongfully-convicted man finally receiving clemency.
Lauren Chooljian, Alison MacAdam, Jason Moon, Daniel Barrick and Katie Colaneri of New Hampshire Public Radio
For their gripping and extensively reported investigation of corruption and sexual abuse within the lucrative recovery industry that sought accountability despite legal pressure.
The Jury
The Jury
Sumi Aggarwal(Chair)
Chief Strategy Officer, The Intercept
Raney Aronson-Rath
Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer, FRONTLINE
Brooke Gladstone
Host and Managing Editor, On The Media, WNYC
KalaLea
Audio Producer, WNYC
Noel King
Host and Editorial Director, Today Explained, Vox
Blake Morrison
Investigative Projects Editor, Reuters
Nicholas Quah
Podcast Critic, New York Magazine
Winners in Audio Reporting
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.
Staff of This American Life with Molly O'Toole of the Los Angeles Times and Emily Green, freelancer, Vice News
For “The Out Crowd,” revelatory, intimate journalism that illuminates the personal impact of the Trump Administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy.
2024 Prize Winners
Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker
For a searing indictment of our legal system’s reliance on the felony murder charge and its disparate consequences, often devastating for communities of color.
Staff of Reuters
For an eye-opening series of accountability stories focused on Elon Musk’s automobile and aerospace businesses, stories that displayed remarkable breadth and depth and provoked official probes of his companies’ practices in Europe and the United States.
Hannah Dreier of The New York Times
For a deeply reported series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States—and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post
For passionate columns written under great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country.