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The New Yorker Secures Record Three Pulitzer Prizes for Wartime Reporting

The magazine's groundbreaking wins in commentary, feature photography, and audio reporting spotlight narratives from Gaza, Syria, and Iraq, prompting calls for U.S. military accountability.

A sign with the poem "What A Gazan Should Do During An Israeli Air Strike," by Mosab Abu Toha (inset) is seen at the University of California, Berkeley, pro-Palestinian student encampment, May 4, 2024. (Jay L. Clendenin/Getty Images)
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Overview

  • The New Yorker won three Pulitzer Prizes in 2025, marking the most awards ever achieved by a magazine in a single year.
  • Mosab Abu Toha received the Pulitzer for Commentary for essays blending memoir and reporting on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza during the 2023-2024 conflict.
  • Moises Saman earned the Feature Photography Pulitzer for documenting the aftermath of the Assad regime's fall in Syria, capturing scenes of repression and grief around Damascus.
  • The In the Dark podcast team won the Pulitzer for Audio Reporting for investigating the 2005 Haditha massacre in Iraq and exposing accountability failures by the U.S. military.
  • Following the podcast's findings, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen have requested a Defense Department inspector general probe into compliance with war crimes obligations.