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AP wins public service, photo Pulitzers for Ukraine coverage

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for its coverage of the war in Ukraineearning recognition for its breaking news photography of the Russian invasion, as well as the prestigious public service award for its starting — and exclusive — dispatches from the ironeged port city of Mariupol. AP journalists were also finalists in two Pulitzer categoriesfor breaking news photography of Sri Lanka’s political crisis and for feature photography of the Ukraine war’s impact on older people. For the public service award, the Pulitzer judges acknowledged AP — which had the only international journalists…Continue Reading

Two class-conscious novels named as winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Two class-conscious novels have been announced as joint winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead and Hernan Diaz’s Trust were both awarded the prestigious literary prize on Monday. Kingsolver’s novel is a modern recasting of Charles Dickens’ classic David Copperfield – following a similar narrative structure. It tells the story of the book’s narrator, Damon, as he struggles to navigate the US opioid crisis. Judges described Kingsolver’s novel as “masterful” in its discussion of poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse. Set in 1920s New York, Diaz’s Trust was described as “a riveting novel set…Continue Reading

AP wins the Breaking News Photography Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of first weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

A woman crying in front of a destroyed apartment. Bodies thrown into a mass grave. A pregnant woman on a stretcher outside of a bombed maternity hospital; she will die soon after the photo is taken. The images from the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine shocked the world last spring, showing the gruesome realities of the war and sending aid surging to Ukraine. More images came as the devastation spread to cities whose names the world learned quickly — Mariupol, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Bucha — as media coverage persisted to give the world a clear picture of the…Continue Reading

Haunting photos from Ukraine that earned AP a Pulitzer Prize

The Associated Press May 9, 2023 GMThttps://apnews.com/article/ap-pulitzer-prize-photos-winners-5d1faa40a337bfdd0c999bd349bafe3bThe Associated Press was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography on Monday in recognition of 15 searing images that rendered in real-time the devastating human toll of the war in Ukraine. It was one of two prizes won by AP — the other was for public service journalism about the siege of MariupolUkrainian. The winning package of breaking news photography included an image of an emergency worker carrying a pregnant woman – who later died — through the shattered grounds of a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol…Continue Reading

Sony World Photography Award 2023 winner turns down top prize after admitting his image was created with AI | Science & Tech News

The winner of a major photography award has turned down the prize after admitting the image he submitted was created by artificial intelligence. German artist Boris Eldagsen’s entry, entitled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, was awarded a Sony World Photography Award last week in the creative open category. In a statement on his website, the artist said he applied to the competition as a “cheeky monkey, to find out, if the competition is prepared for AI images to enter”. “They are not,” he concluded. He also asked readers: “How many of you know or suspect that it was generated by AI? Something…Continue Reading

Pulitzer Prizes: 2023 Winners List

PUBLIC SERVICES Associated Press The Pulitzer committee honored the AP for the work of Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko and Lori Hinnant, citing their “courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” Finalists Austin American-Statesman, in collaboration with the USA Today Network; The Washington Post BREAKING NEWS Staff of The Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times won for “revealing a secretly recorded conversation among city officials that included racist comments,” followed by additional coverage exploring racial issues in local politics. Finalists Staff of The New…Continue Reading

The Central Coast domestic violence photography project puts victim-survivor voices at its heart

After nearly 20 years of living through “horrific” domestic violence, Kristy* has turned her life around and is now using her traumatic experiences to help others.Key points:The new photography exhibition aims to raise awareness about domestic violence The Central Coast project features victim-survivor voices Police partnered with a local photographer for the campaignThe 43-year-old was physically, emotionally and financially abused by a former partner. Now, she is one of the subjects in a photography exhibition showing the reality of domestic and family violence on the New South Wales Central Coast. She said being photographed in such a…Continue Reading

iPhone 15 Pro Max: New camera to end unrealistic photography on iPhone, leaving Samsung in the dust?

By now you’ve probably come across at least one news story about the rumored periscope zoom camera that Apple’s (supposedly) getting ready for the new iPhone. After debuting on Android in 2019 via the Huawei P30 Pro, the modern version of a periscope zoom lens is now expected to finally make it to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and possibly the smaller iPhone 15 Pro too. While we don’t know exactly how much more capable than the 3x zoom lens on the iPhone 14 Pro the new periscope shooter will be, there seems to be a surprising or even “shocking”…Continue Reading