Washington Post, New York Times win Pulitzers for work on Trump, Putin

Dean Baquet (centre), executive editor of The New York Times, celebrates the announcement of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in The Times office in New York, U.S., April 10, 2017. The New York Times won three awards

NEW YORK: The Pulitzer Prizes, the most prestigious awards in US journalism, on Monday honored work that challenged President Donald Trump during the country’s divisive election campaign and delivered a passionate defense of a free press.

The 101th edition of the awards, announced at Columbia University in New York, came with the US news media under asault from the White House for peddling “fake news” critical of the administration, and after the press took a bashing for failure to predict Trump’s election.