NEW YORK — The 2016 Pultizer Prizes, in their 100th year, were awarded Monday for journalism and the arts. Here are some of the highlights:
• The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables — an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers.
AP journalists Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza and Esther Htusan chronicled how men from Myanmar and other countries were being imprisoned, sometimes in cages, in an island village in Indonesia and forced to work on fishing vessels.
• “Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, honoring creator Lin-Manuel Miranda for a dazzling musical that has captured popular consciousness like few Broadway shows. The Columbia University’s prize board on Monday cited “Hamilton” as “a landmark American musical.”
• The Washington Post’s series on fatal police shootings across the U.S. in 2015 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the national reporting category. The Post marshaled a team of reporters, editors, researchers, photographers and graphic artists to collect information on such shootings and analyze it for patterns in law enforcement. The result was a database containing the details of 990 fatal police shootings across the nation in 2015 and a series of articles describing trends in the data.
• The Los Angeles Times was awarded the breaking news prize for its coverage of the shooting rampage by husband-and-wife extremists that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, Calif.
• The Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune received the investigative reporting prize for demonstrating that years of budget and staff cuts and overall neglect had resulted in a dramatic uptick of violence in Florida’s mental hospitals.
The Tampa Bay Times also won in local reporting for detailing the harmful effects of ending school integration in Pinellas County, Fla., the most concentrated site of academic failure in Florida.
The Associated Press and The Washington Post contributed to this report.
