Public service.

The Post was honored by the Pulitzer committee with a prestigious public service award for its account of the assault on Washington.

The New York Times was a finalist.

There is a breaking news.

The Herald won the award for its coverage of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex in Surfside, Fla.

Staff of The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

There are investigative reports.

The committee said that a multipart investigation of toxic hazards inside Florida's only battery recycling plant led to safety measures to protect workers and residents.

The Star Tribune of Minneapolis had Jeffrey and Nicole Norfleet as a finalist.

There is an explanATORY REPORTING.

The coverage of the James Webb Space Telescope showed how it would benefit astronomy.

Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Wall Street Journal.

Local reporting.

The reporters looked at Chicago's history of failed building code and fire safety code enforcement, which resulted in dozens of unnecessary deaths.

The Indianapolis Star, The Palm Beach Post, and The Palm Beach Post all had a finalist.

ImageA traffic stop in Oklahoma last year.
A traffic stop in Oklahoma last year.Credit...Nick Oxford for The New York Times
A traffic stop in Oklahoma last year.

National reporting.

The police make a lot of fatal traffic stops. The officers usually avoided punishment.

The staff of The Washington Post had finalist Eli Hager of the Marshall Project.

International reporting

The committee citedcourageous and relentless reporting that exposed the vast civilian toll of U.S.-led airstrikes, challenging official accounts of American military engagements in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have staffs that are finalist.

ATURE WRITING

The author's personal connection to the story with sensitive reporting that reveals won for Ms. Senior's portrait of a family.

The New Yorker finalist is Anand Gopal, as well as WPLN's Meribah Knight and Ken Armstrong of ProPublica.

ImageSalamishah Tillet while being introduced as a Pulitzer Prize winner at The New York Times on Monday.
Salamishah Tillet while being introduced as a Pulitzer Prize winner at The New York Times on Monday.Credit...Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times
Salamishah Tillet while being introduced as a Pulitzer Prize winner at The New York Times on Monday.
ImageA Trump supporter carrying Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern through the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
A Trump supporter carrying Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern through the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Credit...Win McNamee/Getty Images
A Trump supporter carrying Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern through the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

There is a breaking news photo.

The breaking news photography category had two winners. The attack on the U.S. Capitol and Marcus Yam's images of the U.S. departure from Afghanistan were the winning images.

A contributor for The New York Times.

ImageA Hindu holy man masking himself before taking a traditional dip in the Ganges River.
A Hindu holy man masking himself before taking a traditional dip in the Ganges River.Credit...Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
A Hindu holy man masking himself before taking a traditional dip in the Ganges River.

There is a feature photo.

There are images of Covid-19's toll in India.

The San Francisco Chronicle has a finalist.

Audio reporting

A man who had been in prison for more than 30 years was profiled in a seven-episode podcast.

Eyder Peralta, Solomon Fisseha, Alsanosi Adam, Halima Athumani, Mike Hixenbaugh, Antonia Hylton, Frannie Kelley,Reid Cherlin, and Julie Shapiro of NBC News are semifinalists.

There are special citations and awards.

For their courage, endurance and commitment to reporting during the invasion of their country.

There isCTION

Mr. Cohen's book imagines a college job interview for Benzion Netanyahu, the father of the future Israeli prime minister. The novel explores themes of Jewishness and diaspora as Netanyahu's fatalistic view of Jewish history bumps up against that of the narrator, an American Jewish professor.

Francisco Goldman and Gayl Jones wrote theMonkey Boy and Palmares, respectively.

It is history.

Ms. Eustace's book explores how the killing of an Indigenous hunter profoundly influenced the American justice system.

Cuba's colonial history, revolutions and cultural shifts are chronicled in Ms. Ferrer's account, which focuses on its relationship with the United States.

Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction is a finalist.

ImageWinfred Rembert
Winfred RembertCredit...Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times
Winfred Rembert

It's a biography.

The memoir blends Mr. Rembert's life story with his artwork. In his own words, Mr. Rembert recounts his life in the Jim Crow era of the Deep South, his time in prison working on chain gangs, and his escape from an attempted lynching in Georgia.

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women, and Women to Medicine, are two of the nominees.

poetry

This collection is described as a memoir composed of sonnets, with poems that touch on death, birth, loss and addiction. The National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Voelcker Award were both won by the collection.

Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten is a finalist.

The general nonfiCTION.

Ms.Elliott's book expands on her previous series about a homeless New York schoolgirl and her family. In addition to a portrait of the family, it is about a city and country that have failed to address the issues of poverty and addiction.

Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back From Extremism was one of the final three.

There was a drama.

The play is about a black, gay, Southern man who is told by his father's ghost to avenge his death. The Public Theater in New York is about to begin previews for a production that will be streamed from the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.

Sweatshop Overlord is a finalist by Kristina Wong and Selling Kabul is a finalist by Sylvia Khoury.

Music.

The group Present Music commissioned this work for their Thanksgiving concert in Milwaukee. Mr. Chacon said he made an exception for that holiday because he makes a point not to present his art on that day. The church in which the piece was to premiere was an exploration of gathering spaces, their history and the land they occupy. It considers the futility of giving voice to the voiceless when ceding space is never an option for those in power.

Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars is one of the finalist's.