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.
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
This is the third awarding of the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary prize, replacing Editorial Cartooning.
