2018 Pulitzer Prize 2018 Pulitzer Prize The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2017 calendar year. Prize winners and nominated finalists were announced by Dana Canedy at 3:00 p.m. EST on April 16, 2018. "The New York Times" won the most awards of any newspaper, with three, bringing its total to one hundred and twenty-five Pulitzer Prizes. "The Washington Post" won Investigative Reporting and National Reporting, the latter of which was shared with the "New York Times". "The New York Times" and "The New Yorker" won the prize in public service, bringing their totals to
Data-driven journalism journalism, and numerous Pulitzer Prizes in recent years have been awarded to data-driven storytelling, including the "2018 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting" and the "2017 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service." According to information architect and multimedia journalist Mirko Lorenz, data-driven journalism is primarily a "workflow" that consists of the following elements: "digging deep" into data by scraping, cleansing and structuring it, "filtering" by mining for specific information, "visualizing" and "making a story". This process can be extended to provide information results that cater to individual interests and the broader public. Data journalism trainer and writer Paul Bradshaw describes the process