The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners were published on 15 Journalism categories and seven Book, Drama and Music categories. The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism were first awarded in 1917 and are regarded as the field’s most prestigious honour in the U.S.
Below is the list of winners in Journalism:
| Breaking News Reporting | The staff of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. |
| Investigative Reporting | Brian M. Rosenthal of The New York Times |
| Explanatory Reporting | The staff of The Washington Post |
| Local Reporting | The staff of The Baltimore Sun |
| National Reporting | T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi of ProPublica; Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times |
| International Reporting | Staff of The New York Times |
| Feature Writing | Ben Taub of The New Yorker |
| Commentary | Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times |
| Criticism | Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times |
| Editorial Writing | Jeffery Gerritt of the Palestine (Tx.) Herald Press |
| Editorial Cartooning | Barry Blitt, contributor, The New Yorker |
Winners in Letters, Drama and Music:
- Drama: A Strange Loop, by Michael R. Jackson
- History: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, by W. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press)
- Biography: Sontag: Her Life and Work, by Benjamin Moser (Ecco)
- Poetry: The Tradition, by Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press)
- General Nonfiction: The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, by Anne Boyer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux),
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books) - Music: The Central Park Five, by Anthony Davis
- Fiction: The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
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