Category

 Winners

Journalism

Public Service

The New York Times

Breaking News Reporting

Staff of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.

Investigative Reporting

Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy of The Boston Globe

Explanatory Reporting

Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters and Ed Yong of The Atlantic

Local Reporting

Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times

National Reporting

Staffs of The Marshall Project; AL.com, Birmingham; IndyStar, Indianapolis; and the Invisible Institute, Chicago

International Reporting

Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek of BuzzFeed News

Feature Writing

Mitchell S. Jackson, freelance contributor, Runner’s World and Nadja Drost, freelance contributor, The California Sunday Magazine

Commentary

Michael Paul Williams of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch

Criticism

Wesley Morris of The New York Times

Editorial Writing

Robert Greene of the Los Angeles Times

Editorial Cartooning

No award

Breaking News Photography

Photography Staff of Associated Press

Feature Photography

Emilio Morenatti of Associated Press

Audio Reporting

Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith and Robert Little of National Public Radio

Books, Drama, and Music

Fiction

The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (Harper)

Drama

The Hot Wing King, by Katori Hall

History

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright/Norton)

Biography

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, by the late Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright/Norton)

Poetry

Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz (Graywolf Press)

General Nonfiction

Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Music

Stride, by Tania León (Peermusic Classical)

Special Citations

Darnella Frazier