Anand RK, Suparna Sharma, and Natalie Obiko Pearson Win 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

Key facts

• Mumbai-based artist Anand RK and freelance journalist Suparna Sharma, along with Bloomberg’s Natalie Obiko Pearson, won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for their work titled trAPPed.
• The winning entry, published by Bloomberg, is a visually driven investigative report that exposes a sophisticated cyber-fraud network targeting a neurologist in India.
• The Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1917 and administered by Columbia University, awarded The Washington Post the Public Service prize and The New York Times the Investigative Reporting prize.
• Other journalism winners include Saher Alghorra for Breaking News Photography, the Minnesota Star Tribune for Breaking News, and the Associated Press (AP) for International Reporting.
• In the arts and letters categories, Daniel Kraus won for fiction with Angel Down, Bess Wohl for drama with Liberation, and Jill Lepore for history with We the People.