The staff of The Washington Post won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize public service medal for its coverage of the causes, costs and aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack, showing how the forces behind the siege are shaking the underpinnings of democracy.
The Post also had finalists for 2022 Pulitzer Prize awards in three categories: investigative reporting, national reporting, and illustrated reported and commentary:
Castigating the powerful, highlighting the absurdity of modern politics and championing the powerless: the genius of Ann Telnaes, a finalist for illustrated reporting and commentary. From those early hours of Jan. 6 through the entire year, The Post provided an unflinching, unparalleled and indispensable account of the attack. We described it as an “attempted coup” in our earliest stories and provided a series of immediate scoops about the urgent warnings that preceded the siege, the peril that Vice President Mike Pence and top lawmakers faced during the rampage and Trump’s failure to stop rioters.
In the wake of the violence, The Post captured every aspect of the insurrection. Our coverage included intimate accounts of what the U.S. Capitol Police confronted, a haunting story about how Ashli Babbitt became a rioter, a piercing look at how everyday Americans joined the mob and a video that published just 10 days after the attack and took viewers inside the Capitol in a way they had not seen before.
After more than a week of on-site reporting for her piece “The last days inside Trailer 83,” Hannah Dreier wondered if there was anything more to see. For eight days, in order to document a story about the government’s obligations to people in need, she had been showing up at the FEMA-provided trailer of Mike and Crystal Erickson before they awakened and staying until they went to sleep.
It wasn’t until someone was knocking that he looked out and saw two FEMA security guards and two women who were strangers. “Give me a minute,” he yelled. But the knocking got louder and so Mike paused and threw the door open, revealing Crystal suspended in the net, clothed in only a T-shirt.
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