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87 of our alumni, students and faculty have won or shared in 58 Pulitzer Prizes.
Recent Pulitzer Winners
Four OHIO alumni win Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and photojournalism
Four Ohio University alumni won Pulitzer Prizes for their coverage of major news, including three for their efforts to cover the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol building.
Drew Angerer, BSVC ’12
Angerer and a team of colleagues from Getty Images won in the Breaking News Photography category for “comprehensive and consistently riveting photos of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.”
Amanda Voisard, BSVC ’02
Voisard captured photos inside the Capitol during the riots for the Washington Post's “comprehensive coverage of the January 6 insurrection.”
Marcus Yam
Yam of the Los Angeles Times won a Breaking News Photography Pulitzer for his “raw and urgent images of the U.S. departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country.”
Matt Zapotosky, BSJ ’08
Zapotosky was part of the team that won the Pulitzer for “comprehensive coverage of the January 6 insurrection.”
OHIO Pulitzer Winners Since 1973
The below infographic was created by Scripps College of Communication graduate student Kwamina Edonu. Download Edodu's complete infographic, Pulitzer Prize Winning Scripps Alumni & Faculty of Ohio University (PDF)
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Four OHIO alumni win Pulitzer Prizes for journalismFour Ohio University alumni won Pulitzer Prizes for their coverage of major news, including three for their efforts to cover the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol building.
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