Honors for bearing witness: Star Tribune wins Pulitzer for George Floyd reporting

The staff of the Star Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news Friday for its coverage of the police killing of George Floyd and the landscape-altering racial reckoning that fanned out across the world from Minneapolis in its aftermath.

The Pulitzer Board called the Star Tribune's coverage of Floyd's death under the knee of former police officer Derek Chauvin, a death captured on a cellphone by teenager Darnella Frazier, "urgent, authoritative and nuanced." The board also gave Frazier a special commendation.

The Star Tribune's Libor Jany first reported Floyd's killing at 3:30 a.m. on May 26, 2020, and his initial story was updated 115 times through that day. Over the following week, Star Tribune journalists provided nearly 24-hour-a-day coverage of the rage that consumed Minneapolis, in which rioters burned buildings including a police station.

"Our staff poured its heart and soul into covering this story. It has been such a traumatic and tragic time for our community," Star Tribune Editor Rene Sanchez said in a statement after the announcement. "We felt that our journalism had to capture the full truth and depth of this pain and the many questions it renewed about Minnesota and the country."

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