Pulitzer Prize for coverage of policing in Alaska villages

The New York Times wins the investigative reporting prize for an expose of predatory lending in the New York City taxi industry

The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize in public service on Monday for illuminating the sparse policing of many Alaksa villages.

The New York Times won the investigative reporting prize for an expose of predatory lending in the New York City taxi industry, while the staff of The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, took the breaking news reporting award for unpacking racial disparities and other issues in a spate of governor’s pardons.

And a first-ever award for audio reporting went to “This American Life,”

the Los Angeles Times and

Vice News for “The Out Crowd,” an examination of the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” immigration policy.

The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism were first awarded in 1917 and are considered the field’s most prestigious honor in the U.S.