Times Pulitzer Prize for Gaza Reporting Does Not Include Report on Hamas Rape

The New York Times was awarded the coveted Pulitzer Prize on Monday – one of three prizes the newspaper won – for its “comprehensive” coverage of “the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas in southern Israel, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli military raid.” , deadly reaction in Gaza.”

But the Times’ list of award-winning Israel and Gaza stories, which topped the International Reporting category, singled out Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz and Adam Sella’s chilling December report on Hamas, the ” “demonstrates a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women,” excluded the attacks on Israel.”

The Times did not include the Hamas rape report in the package of Gaza stories it submitted to the Pulitzer committee for consideration for the International Reporting Award. A source familiar with the matter told the Sun that the article was submitted in a different category and did not win, pointing out that the Times has about 1,700 war stories, many of which were not included in the prizes.

The Hamas rape article “Screams Without Words” caused an uproar among the Times’ anti-Israel staff, who tried to find problems with the article and relayed internal feuds to the left-wing newspaper Intercept. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Times has launched an internal investigation to find the leakers. It wasn’t conclusive.

“The New York Times has invested more than any other U.S. newspaper over the past decade in helping readers understand the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and we have some of the world’s most experienced reporters, photographers and analysts on the ground, to ensure our coverage.” “The portrayal of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel and the Israeli counterattack in Gaza is nuanced, steeped in context and expertise,” Danielle Rhoades Ha, senior vice president of external communications at the Times, told the Sun. “As far as the December 28 investigation is concerned, we are confident in the accuracy of our reporting and will continue to report on the issue of sexual violence during this conflict.”

The most prestigious prize, the Public Service Award, went to the left-leaning nonprofit news outlet ProPublica for a series of articles examining the travel and entertainment expenses of two conservative Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The Pulitzer judges called the pieces “groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that broke through the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court” and showed how “a small group of politically influential billionaires wooed justices with lavish gifts and trips and persuaded the Court to accept them.” urged.” his first code of conduct.”

A Pulitzer also went to a former ProPublica writer, Hannah Dreier, who has since moved to the Times, for her Times reporting on the plight of migrant children working in America.

Shortly after the announcement, ProPublica’s award for its coverage of the Supreme Court was criticized by some on social media for its bias against far-left reporting.

“ProPublica is a propaganda outlet funded by left-wing billionaires to attack conservative Supreme Court justices,” Judicial Network President Carrie Severino wrote on X. “They were just awarded a Pulitzer for their smear campaign.”

“In recent years, the Pulitzer Prize has become a joke. It exists solely to reward left-wing activists with an award,” wrote Sen. Cruz’s former communications adviser Steve Guest.

The awards, announced Monday afternoon at Columbia University, included prizes for Reuters for a series of negative articles about entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has become increasingly politically conservative in the last year. The Pulitzer jury called the pieces “eye-opening.”

In addition to the awards, the Pulitzer board issued a special statement to recognize student journalists who cover protests “in the face of great personal and academic risk.”

“We would also like to recognize the exceptional real-time reporting of student journalists at Columbia University, home of the Pulitzer Prizes, when the New York Police Department was called to campus Tuesday evening,” the board wrote. “In the spirit of freedom of the press, these students worked under difficult and dangerous circumstances and at risk of arrest to document a major national news event.”