NEW YORK- Reuters news agency was awarded the Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for international reporting and photography. The New York Times and Washington Post shared honours for exposing sexual harassment in America and detailing the US investigation of Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
The Pulitzers are viewed by American of journalism as the gold standard for the profession. Reuters was recognised for its international reporting for its expose’ on the methods of police killing squads in Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, and their feature photography documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Reuters Editor in chief Stephen J. Adler said, “In a year in which many Pulitzers were rightly devoted to US domestic matters, we’re proud at Reuters to shine a light on global issues of profound concern and importance,”
It become the first time that Reuters won two prizes in one year.
Alder praised his reporters who were part of the team, Clare Baldwin, Andrew RC Marshall and Manuel Mogato said, “demonstrated how police in the president’s ‘drug war’ have killed with impunity and consistently been shielded from prosecution,”
Reuters photography staff was honoured for images that exposed and highlighted the violence endured by the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, as they fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.
Alder added, “The extraordinary photography of the mass exodus of the Rohingya people to Bangladesh demonstrates not only the human cost of conflict but also the essential role photojournalism can play in revealing it”
Mohammed Shoaib, 7, who was shot in his chest before crossing the border from Myanmar in August, is held by his father outside a medical centre near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh November 5, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Hamida, a Rohingya refugee woman, weeps as she holds her 40-day-old son after he died as their boat capsized before arriving on shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Betel leaves cover the face of 11-month-old Rohingya refugee Abdul Aziz whose wrapped body lay in his family shelter after he died battling high fever and severe cough at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, December 4, 2017. REUTERS
People gather under heavy rain around bodies of Rohingya refugees after the boat they were using to flee violence in Myanmar capsized off Inani Beach near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh September 28, 2017.
Bodies of Rohingya refugees, who died when their boat capsized while fleeing Myanmar, are placed in a local madrasa in Shah Porir Dwip, in Teknaf, near Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Smoke is seen on the Myanmar border as Rohingya refugees walk on the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh September 11, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
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