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Medar de la Cruz, contributor to The New Yorker, has been awarded the 2024 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Pulitzer Prize for The Diary of a Rikers Island Library Worker.
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Judges commentary: “For his visually-driven story set inside Rikers Island jail using bold black-and-white images that humanize the prisoners and staff through their hunger for books.”
Finalists for the 2024 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Pulitzer Prize were:
Clay Bennett of The Chattanooga Times Free Press
Angie Wang, contributor, The New Yorker
Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca, and Ren Galena, contributor, The Washington Post
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This is the third awarding of the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary prize, replacing Editorial Cartooning.
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