The 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday. Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra, a New York Times contributor, won the Prize for Breaking News Photography for his “haunting, sensitive series showing the devastation and starvation in Gaza.” M. Gessen of The New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for Opinion Writing. Meanwhile, a special citation was awarded to Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 and 2018 that exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network.