Pulitzer on the Road
What makes a Pulitzer Prize winner? The Pulitzer on the Road podcast travels across the country to meet with authors and journalists to share the stories behind their prize-winning work.
Episodes
2026 Pulitzer winners announced
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David Remnick, Carlos Lozada and Nicole Carroll: Behind the Scenes at The Pulitzer Prizes
For decades, The Pulitzer Prizes have been associated with excellence in the real world of journalism, books, drama and music, but also in fictional shows, movies and comic books like The Muppet Show, Superman, The Simpsons, The Wire, and Sex and the City. But how did the Pulitzer Prizes become what they are today?
On this episode, our host Nicole Carroll, 2018 Explanatory Reporting winner and co
Writing Our Lives: Natasha Trethewey & Lucy Sante on Memoir Writing
On this episode, 2007 Poetry winner, Natasha Trethewey, and 2025 Memoir finalist, Lucy Sante, join each other at the 2026 AWP Conference for a conversation about memoir writing, and discuss how works rooted in personal experience can connect to larger narratives of race, historical erasure, gender, queerness, and class.
Trethewey is a two-time US Poet Laureate and nonfiction writer, whose acclai
Photojournalists Covering Conflict Zones with Nariman El-Mofty, Enric Marti & Ivor Prickett
On this episode, 2019 International Reporting winner and photojournalist Nariman El-Mofty and Enric Martí, Deputy Director of Photography at Associated Press join Pulitzer Prizes Administrator Marjorie Miller at the International World Press Institute Congress in Vienna to discuss the work of photojournalists covering conflict zones, and how they continue to deliver searing images despite challeng
Local News Matters With Toluse Olorunnipa, Alissa Zhu & Jessica Gallagher
Access to local news is in decline. In the last year, 213 US counties did not have any local news sources and 1500 counties had access to only one local news source. Meanwhile, research shows that communities need a shared set of facts in order to have a healthy democracy. In a lot of communities, high school newspapers and broadcasts are filling the gaps by covering local stories and holding offi
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso and Percival Everett
Today, we’re sharing a special conversation from the podcast Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso.
The episode you’re about to hear aired just this month. It’s an entertaining and insightful talk with Percival Everett, who was named the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
Together, they cover a range of topics, from his immersive process writing James, to teaching in the digital age, and why he
Jayne Anne Phillips and Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writing and War
Jayne Anne Phillips won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Night Watch, a vividly rendered account set in Phillips’ native West Virginia in the aftermath of the Civil War, that follows a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her traumatized mother as they struggle to heal. In this final episode of season two, she is in conversation with author Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pu
Jonathan Eig and Yohance Lacour: New Perspectives on Stories from the Past
Jonathan Eig won the 2024 Pulitzer in Biography for King: A Life, a revelatory book on Martin Luther King Jr. that draws on new sources to enrich our understanding of the civil rights leader’s life. When Eig heard the 2024 Pulitzer-win for Audio Reporting, You Didn’t See Nothin, he knew he had to talk with the podcast host, Yohance Lacour of the Invisible Institute. In this award-winning podcast,
Hannah Dreier, Iván Valencia, and Gregory Bull: To the Border and Beyond
In 2023, a record breaking number of migrants braved the harrowing journey to the U.S./Mexico border in hopes of being granted asylum in America. In this episode, we hear from three Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who covered different stages of this experience. First, we hear from two photojournalist staff contributors to Associated Press’ 2024 Pulitzer win for Feature Photography: Iván Valenc
Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway on Going Beyond the Data
Journalists Sarah Conway, formerly of City Bureau, and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for Missing in Chicago, an investigation into how the Chicago Police Department has been handling missing person cases for Black girls and women. They’re joined by Salamishah Tillet, a Pulitzer-prize winner for Criticism and the co-founder of the org
Sanaz Toossi and Lynn Nottage: The Politics of Playwriting
Sanaz Toossi won the 2023 Pulitzer in Drama for her play, English, a powerful play about four Iranian adults preparing for an English language exam and grappling with how learning a new language may alter their identities and represent a new life. Sanaz takes us behind the scenes as she and her cast and crew prepare to open English on Broadway. Then, she and two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Ly
Justin Chang and Joe Morgenstern on Cinevangalism
Now a film critic for The New Yorker, Justin Chang won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for film reviews he wrote for the Los Angeles Times. Joe Morgenstern has been reviewing films since 1959 and won 2005 Pulitzer in Criticism for weekly reviews he published at The Wall Street Journal. On this episode, Justin and Joe meet in LA’s historic Egyptian Theater for an inter-generational conversatio
The Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz: The People vs. the Storms
In 2023, California’s Santa Cruz County was hit with nine atmospheric rivers that caused widespread displacement and devastation. During this period, the six reporters on staff at Lookout Santa Cruz – a roughly two-year old digital news outlet – stretched themselves thin providing in-depth coverage of the region’s most vulnerable communities. Their efforts and reporting won them the 2024 Pulitzer
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian Imprisonment and Fighting for Democracy
Vladimir Kara-Murza won the 2024 Pulitzer in Commentary for opinion columns he wrote from solitary confinement in a Siberian prison. He and 2004 winner and Pulitzer Board member Anne Applebaum discuss how he published columns while imprisoned, what it was like being released in the largest US-Russia prisoner exchange since the Cold War, and why he believes democracy is inevitable for his homeland.
Pulitzer on the Road Season 2 Trailer
The Pulitzer on the Road podcast is back for season two! What does it take to win a Pulitzer Prize? In each episode, we’ll hear winners in conversation with one another, sharing stories behind their prize-winning work. This packed season features conversations between journalists and historians Vladimir Kara-Murza and Anne Applebaum, novelists Jayne Anne Phillips and Viet Thanh Nguyen, playwrights
Meeting Barbara Kingsolver in Appalachia
An interview between Barbara Kingsolver, 2023 Prize winner for Fiction, and Emily Ramshaw of The 19th, on Kingsolver’s farm in Appalachia, about growing up in Appalachia, her life as a writer, and the unforgettable narrator she created in her novel, Demon Copperhead.
To access the transcript and learn more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-barbar
Caitlin Dickerson on Children at the Border
Hundreds of migrant parents and children were separated at the US-Mexico border under a Trump administration policy. Caitlin Dickerson, staff writer for The Atlantic, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. She visits El Paso and talks with Ginger Thompson of ProPublica.
To access the transcript and learn more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podc
Authors Hernan Diaz and Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation
Hernan Diaz, 2023 Fiction winner, meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Pulitzer board member and himself a previous Fiction winner, in a New York Gilded Age mansion to discuss Trust, Diaz’s novel that explores family, wealth and ambition.
To read the transcript and more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-hernan-diaz-and-viet-thanh-nguyen-conversation
Jefferson Cowie on Freedom's Dominion in Alabama
Jefferson Cowie’s book Freedom’s Dominion gives the history of white Americans fighting for the freedom to dominate others and won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for History. In Eufaula, Alabama, he meets with Kelly Lytle Hernandez, history professor at the University of California Los Angeles.
To access the transcript and learn more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/pod
Mstyslav Chernov on Being Trapped in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov and a team of Associated Press journalists captured the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Mariupol. He talks about their award-winning work for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Nancy Barnes of the Boston Globe.
To read the transcript and find out more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-mstyslav-chernov-mariu
AL.com in Alabama: Small Town Shakedown
Hear about how police targeted residents of small town Brookside, Alabama, in an
interview with 2023 Pulitzer winners for Local Reporting, John Archibald and Ashley
Remkus at AL.com, and Neil Brown, Pulitzer Board member and president of the
Poynter Institute.
To access the transcript and read more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-alcom-brooksi
Pulitzer on the Road S1 Trailer
The Pulitzer Prizes is launching a Pulitzer on the Road podcast, part of a public programming initiative celebrating the work of Pulitzer Prize-winners with audiences across the country.
The podcast features interviews with 2023 winners in journalism and books, and delves into the stories behind their work.
To learn more about the podcast and guests in this series, visit:
https://pulitzeronther
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