The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, with two awards and a special citation going to outlets and journalists for their coverage of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

This year's prizes reaffirmed the risks journalists take to uncover the truth in areas of conflict and distress.

• The award for commentary coverage, for example, went to Vladimir Kara-Murza, a contributor for The Washington Post, for columns he authored "at great personal risk from his prison cell" in Russia, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin's Russia.

This year's award winners were dominated by national outlets.

• The Washington Post and The New York Times won three awards each — the most of any outlet — followed by the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based independent journalism nonprofit, and Reuters, with two each.
• Local California outlets earned three prizes, with the Los Angeles Times, USG Audio California and Lookout Santa Cruz winning one award each.

Between the lines: Several of the prizes were awarded to journalists and outlets whose work shed light on the failures of the U.S. government and its leaders.

• ProPublica earned the prestigious Pulitzer for Public Service Journalism for its reporting on how billionaires wooed Supreme Court justices with lavish gifts and travel.
• Hannah Dreier of The New York Times won the Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting for a series exposing corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate around migrant child labor.