The Atlantic's Writer Caitlin Dickerson Wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize ('We Need to Take Away Children)
May 8, 2023—The Atlantic’s staff writer Caitlin Dickerson has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for the September 2022 cover story, “‘We Need to Take Away Children,’” an exhaustive investigation that exposed the secret history of the Trump administration’s policy to intentionally separate migrant children from their parents; the incompetence that led the government to lose track of many children; and the intention among former officials to separate families again if Trump is reelected. Her reporting, one of the longest articles in The Atlantic’s history, laid out in painstaking detail one of the darkest chapters in recent U.S. history, exposing not only how the policy came into being and who was responsible for it, but also how all of its worst outcomes were anticipated and ignored. The investigation was edited by national editor Scott Stossel.
Two other staff writers were Pulitzer finalists: Elizabeth Bruenig in Feature Writing, for her relentless and groundbreaking reporting into Alabama’s deeply troubling incompetence on death row, which prompted a temporary moratorium on executions in the state, and Xochitl Gonzalez in Commentary, for her writing in the magazine and in the Brooklyn, Everywhere newsletter that the Pulitzer Board wrote “explore how gentrification and the predominant white culture in the United States stifle the physical and emotional expression of racial minorities.”
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