The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Capitol Hill attack.

The Washington Post newspaper was awarded Monday by Pulitzer Prize to the Public Service for its coverage of storm the capitol on January 6, 2021 for the “strong and vivid” presentation of its scope.

For the awards jury, the newspaper offered its readers “a thorough and determined understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days,” Marjorie Miller, curator of the Pulitzer Prizes, said during the announcement of awards.

Meanwhile, they met with a special award Ukrainian journalist for his scope of Russia’s invasion of the country.

The curator of the awards, Marjorie Miller, stressed her “courage, resistance and commitment to factual information” during the conflict and in the face of the “propaganda war” launched from Russia.

“Despite the bombings, kidnappings, occupations and even the deaths in their ranks, they continued their efforts to offer an accurate picture of a terrible reality,” Miller said in announcing the this special award.

On its website, the newspaper said that “the award, considered the highest honor in American journalism, recognizes the work of more than 100 journalists in the Post newsroom, many of them contributed reporting from the Capitol grounds that day, as well as others who investigated security flaws that contributed to the crisis, human protection, costs to attacks and the wider effects for the country ”.

“This is an important event in American history and democracy,” said Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee. He called it the Post’s “mission and our absolute sacred trust” to not only cover the crisis thoroughly, but also to find ways to bring its reporting and analysis “to the widest possible audience.”

“I am extremely pleased and humbled that the full extent and scope of the Post’s coverage has been recognized,” he added, including the visual presentation that helped make the news clearer and more understandable to consumers.

Among other differences, a book about the history of Cuba from the arrival of the first Spaniards to the contemporary period (“Cuba: An American History”) written by Cuban-Americans Ada Ferrerwas awarded the prize for best history book to come out in 2021.

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