NEW YORK – The Associated Press global news agency won two 2023 Pulitzer prizes for journalism for reporting and photography from the besieged city of Mariupol in Ukraine. Among other recipients of the most prestigious U.S. award in news:
> Los Angeles Times, for revealing a secretly recorded conversation among city officials that included racist comments.
> Wall Street Journal, for reporting on financial conflicts of interest among officials at 50 federal agencies in the Trump era.
> Caitin Dickerson, of The Atlantic, for reporting on Trump a policy that forcefully separated migrant children from their parents.
> Anna Wolfe, of Mississippi Today, for uncovering how a Mississippi governor steered millions of welfare dollars to his family and friends, including NFL quarterback Brett Favre.
> AL.com, of Birmingham, Alabama, for unveiling how police preyed on residents to inflate revenue.
> Caroline Kitchener, of the Washington Post, for personifying abortion issues through a teenager who gave birth to twins after new restrictions denied her an abortion.
> New York Times, for an eight-month investigation into Ukrainian deaths in one town and the Russian unit that did it.