Reuters has won two Pulitzer Prizes, for Beat Reporting and National Reporting, and was also named a finalist in Illustrated Reporting and Breaking News Photography.
According to Alessandra Galloni, Editor-in-Chief of the Agency, the Pulitzer win for Beat Reporting honors the groundbreaking Meta investigations “The Secrets of Meta’s Success.”
Galloni said the award recognizes a year of revelatory accountability reporting on Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Through deep sourcing, exclusive internal documents and innovative testing of Meta’s advertising systems, Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham exposed how the company tolerated widespread fraud on its platforms and deployed AI chatbots in ways that put vulnerable users, including children, at risk. The stories prompted calls for investigations by U.S. senators, a Federal Trade Commission inquiry into AI chatbots, litigation against Meta, and policy changes by the company.
Our Pulitzer win for National Reporting honors the revelatory series on Donald Trump’s historic campaign of vengeance against his perceived enemies, “The Revenge of Donald Trump.”
Our reporters traced how Trump’s intimidation tactics evolved into a means of exacting payback and expanding power – and the human toll the campaign is taking. The work was distinguished by its empirical rigor. The team scoured White House directives, internal agency correspondence, social media posts, court documents and administrative filings to build a bedrock of hard fact for each story. The series reveals how government power is being used to punish dissent and reshape American institutions.
We are also honored to be named a finalist in Illustrated Reporting (our first recognition in the category) for “Scammed into Scamming,” our immersive graphic investigation into Southeast Asia’s cyberfraud industry.
In Breaking News Photography, Reuters was named a finalist for its coverage of President Trump’s immigration crackdown in the United States. From Manhattan courtrooms and Chicago neighborhoods to apartment buildings in Colorado and detention facilities in Texas, our photography team produced a powerful visual record of the administration’s efforts to detain and deport migrants across the country.
These honors reflect the very best of Reuters journalism: fearless, deeply reported, original work that holds powerful institutions to account. They also demonstrate the breadth of what we do so well across text, visuals and photography – and the impact our journalism can have around the world.
Congratulations to our winners, finalists and everyone across the newsroom who contributed to this work. I’m incredibly proud of what they have accomplished and grateful for the rigor, creativity and commitment our journalists bring to Reuters every day.
