The board of the centre that awards the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in US journalism, released a statement on Monday which rejected criticism of its decision to award a past iteration of the prize to news outlets that covered the Trump-Russia investigation.
The organisation, part of Columbia University’s journalism school, in 2018 awarded Pulitzers to reporters at the Washington Post and New York Times involved in the effort to report out the investigation launched by the Justice Department into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether Donald Trump or his campaign had anything to do with it.
