International news agency Reuters has won a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of last year’s long-running pro-democracy protests.
The Pulitzer committee awarded Reuters the Breaking News Photography prize for “wide-ranging and illuminating photographs of Hong Kong as citizens protested infringement of their civil liberties and defended the region’s autonomy by the Chinese government.”
“Our photographers brilliantly captured the magnitude of the protests in Hong Kong,” said Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler. “The team was on the front lines of this monumental set of events, illustrating the stories of hundreds of thousands of [Hongkongers], from what started off as peaceful marches and evolved into the city’s largest political crisis. Their images were beautiful, haunting, illuminating and deeply memorable. I am extremely proud of the team, along with our spectacular finalists, and thank every one of them for their courage, persistence, ingenuity and skill.”
The Pulitzer committee also nominated Reuters’ journalists as finalists in the International Reporting category “for a series of deeply-reported, original dispatches from the Hong Kong protests, a battleground between democracy and autocracy that detailed China’s grip behind the scenes and offered valuable insights into the forces that will shape the next century.”
