The Associated Press won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for public service journalism about the siege of Mariupol, Ukraine and the other for breaking news photography. The breaking news photography prize was awarded for a series of 15 images that captured the devastating human toll of the war in Ukraine. The package included images of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman who later died, Ukrainians trying to flee across a destroyed bridge, and an elderly woman kneeling in agony next to her son’s coffin.
AP photographers captured both horrific scenes of war and acts of courage by soldiers and ordinary people. One image showed a dog standing next to the body of an elderly woman who had been killed during Russia’s occupation of Bucha. Another depicted medical workers trying unsuccessfully to save the life of a child who had been killed by shelling.
The AP photographers who contributed to the Pulitzer-winning work are Evgeniy Maloletka, Emilio Morenatti, Vadim Ghirda, Rodrigo Abd, Felipe Dana, Nariman El-Mofty, and Bernat Armangue.
