PUBLIC SERVICEThe New York Times, for reporting led by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Emily Steel and Michael S. Schmidt; and The New Yorker, for reporting by Ronan Farrow (Winner)
Finalist The Kansas City Star
BREAKING NEWS REPORTINGStaff of The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif. (Winner)
Finalists Staff of The Houston Chronicle | Staff of The New York Times
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTINGStaff of The Washington Post (Winner)
Finalists Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch of The Miami Herald | Tim Eberly of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.
EXPLANATORY REPORTINGStaffs of The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network (Winner)
Finalists Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times | Staff of ProPublica
LOCAL REPORTINGStaff of The Cincinnati Enquirer (Winner)
Finalists Jason Grotto, Sandhya Kambhampati and Ray Long of The Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois | Staff of The Boston Globe
NATIONAL REPORTINGStaffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post (Winner)
Finalists Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting | Brett Murphy of USA Today Network
INTERNATIONAL REPORTINGClare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato of Reuters (Winner)
Finalists Staff of The Associated Press | Staff of BuzzFeed News
FEATURE WRITINGRachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter, GQ (Winner)
Finalists John Woodrow Cox of The Washington Post | Norimitsu Onishi of The New York Times
COMMENTARYJohn Archibald of Alabama Media Group, Birmingham, Ala. (Winner)
Finalists Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker | Steve Lopez of The Los Angeles Times
CRITICISMJerry Saltz of New York magazine (Winner)
Finalists Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post | Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
EDITORIAL WRITINGAndie Dominick of The Des Moines Register (Winner)
Finalists Editorial staff of The New York Times | Sharon Grigsby of The Dallas Morning News
EDITORIAL CARTOONINGJake Halpern, freelance writer, and Michael Sloan, freelance cartoonist, The New York Times (Winner)
Finalists Mark Fiore, freelance cartoonist | Mike Thompson of The Detroit Free Press
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHYRyan Kelly of The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va. (Winner)
Finalist Ivor Prickett, freelance photographer, The New York Times
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHYPhotography Staff of Reuters (Winner)
Finalists Kevin Frayer, freelance photographer, Getty Images | Lisa Krantz of The San Antonio Express-News | Meridith Kohut, freelance photographer, The New York Times
FICTION“Less,” by Andrew Sean Greer (Winner)
(Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company)
Finalists “In the Distance,” by Hernan Diaz (Coffee House Press) | “The Idiot,” by Elif Batuman (Penguin Press)
DRAMA“Cost of Living,” by Martyna Majok (Winner)
Finalists “Everybody,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | “The Minutes,” by Tracy Letts
HISTORY“The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea,” by Jack E. Davis (Winner)
(Liveright/W.W. Norton)
Finalists “Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics,” by Kim Phillips-Fein (Metropolitan Books) | “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” by Steven J. Ross (Bloomsbury)
BIOGRAPHY“Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,” by Caroline Fraser (Winner)
(Metropolitan Books)
Finalists “Richard Nixon: The Life,” by John A. Farrell (Doubleday) | “Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character,” by Kay Redfield Jamison (Alfred A. Knopf)
POETRY“Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016,” by Frank Bidart (Winner)
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists “Incendiary Art,” by Patricia Smith (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press) | “semiautomatic,” by Evie Shockley (Wesleyan University Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION“Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” by James Forman Jr. (Winner)
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists “Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World,” by Suzy Hansen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | “The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us,” by Richard O. Prum (Doubleday)
MUSIC“DAMN.,” by Kendrick Lamar (Winner)
Finalists “Quartet,” by Michael Gilbertson | “Sound From the Bench,” by Ted Hearne
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