Reuters Wins Two Pulitzers in Awards Dominated by Trump

Reuters has actively pursued top journalism awards since it was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 2008, winning its first Pulitzer that year for breaking news photography. With the prizes announced on Monday, it has now won 15 Pulitzers --eight for reporting and seven for photography.

Hailing the latest honours, Editor-in Chief Alessandra Galloni called the 2026 awards extraordinary recognitions that “reflect the very best of Reuters journalism: fearless, deeply reported, original work that holds powerful institutions to account.”

In announcing the national reporting award, the Pulitzer Prize Board cited the Reuters staff, and in particular reporters Ned Parker, Linda So, Peter Eisler and Mike Spector, for a series of articles “documenting how the president used the U.S. government and the influence of his supporters to expand executive power and exact vengeance on his foes”.

Reuters journalists Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham won the beat reporting prize for “inventive and revelatory reporting on Meta that detailed the technology company’s willingness to expose users, including children, to scams and AI manipulation”.

Reuters also had finalists in two other categories – the photography breaking news category for images that documented the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and in the illustrated reporting and commentary category for a graphically illustrated online expose of the Asia-based scamming industry staffed with victims of global trafficking.

Two of Reuters’ principal news service competitors each won a single Pulitzer: Bloomberg in the illustrated reporting and commentary category and the Associated Press for international reporting.

This year’s awards were for work published in 2025, Trump’s first year of his second term as U.S. president. His actions, defying institutional norms, slashing federal agencies and cracking down on immigration, were also the subject of prize-winning entries from the Washington Post, New York Times and Chicago Tribune in addition to the Trump reporting from Reuters.

Majorie Miller, who administers the Pulitzers, berated the threats to media freedoms in the United States and the parlous economic state of the U.S. news industry in her opening remarks at Monday’s announcement, highlighting the importance of free speech, an independent press and access for news organizations to government institutions. ■