Grantees Win Pulitzer Prizes for Reports on China Prison Camps, Migrants’ Dangerous Trek. A Pulitzer Center-supported project and story were awarded Pulitzer Prizes in International Reporting and Feature Writing.
Grantees Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, and Christo Buschek won a Pulitzer Prize on June 11, 2021, in the International Reporting category for BuzzFeed’s Built to Last. Built to Last is a series of articles reporting on China’s secretly built prison and internment camps for the mass detention of Muslims. The extensive reporting identified more than 260 structures built since 2017. The buildings established a sprawling system to detain and incarcerate hundreds of thousands of Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities.
Grantee Nadja Drost won a Pulitzer Prize in the Feature Writing category for her California Sunday Magazine story “When Can We Really Rest?”, a courageous documentation of a group’s journey through the Darien Gap, one of the most dangerous mi