The Los Angeles Times won two Pulitzer Prizes Monday, for coverage by art critic Christopher Knight on the redesign of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and audio reporting on the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy.
Times reporter Molly O’Toole worked with Vice News freelancer Emily Green, who is based in Mexico City, on the “This American Life” episode of “The Out Crowd.” The reporting included interviews with asylum seekers waiting across the border in Mexico, as well as conversations with immigration officers.
Knight has been a finalist for the criticism prize three times before. His review of the museum’s Peter Zumthor-designed $750 million LACMA renovation lamented its smaller scale and high price tag.
In announcing the list of winners via video from her living room due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy noted a parallel with the earliest such announcements.
“Ironically, the very first time the Prizes were presented was June 1917 — less than a year before the 1918 outbreak of the Spanish Flu pandemic,” Canedy said.
The choices for the 15 journalism and seven arts and letters awards were made after “days of rigorous virtual and digital debate, discussion, and contemplation among our board,” she said.
She compared reporters to other essential workers.
“During this season of unprecedented uncertainty, one thing we know for sure is that journalism never stops,” Canedy said. “And much like our courageous first responders and front-line healthcare workers, journalists are running toward the fire. Despite relentless assaults on objective truth, coordinated efforts to undermine our nation’s free press, and persistent economic headwinds, journalists continue to pursue and deliver essential facts and truths to keep us safe and protect our democracy. They are risking — and far too often losing — their lives at a time when their words, their images, and their revelations are more necessary to our democracy than ever.”
The Los Angeles Times was also a finalist in the breaking news category for its coverage of the Conception dive boat fire that killed 34 people last Labor Day off the California coast; for columnist Steve Lopez’ commentary on homelessness; and for explanatory reporting about the eroding California coastline by environmental reporter Rosanna Xia, graphics and data journalist Swetha Kannan, and news application developer Terry Castleman.
The Times has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes since 1942, according to the newspaper.
Los Angeles-based freelancer Lalo Alcaraz was among the other Pulitzer finalists for his political cartoons that offer a Latino take on local and national issues.
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