Pulitzers rejects Trump demand to revoke WaPo, NYT awards
by Zach Schonfeld - 07/18/22 4:56 PM ET
The Pulitzer Prize board on Monday rejected requests from former President Trump to revoke national reporting awards given to The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Trump had repeatedly asked the board to rescind the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in National Reporting, which were awarded to the staffs of the two outlets for their reporting examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The Pulitzer board commissioned a review of the winning works, but found no reason to pull back the awards.
“The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes,” the board said in a statement.
“The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in National Reporting stand,” the statement continued.
The board said the review followed an established, formal process to review complaints against winning entries.
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