The Pulitzer Prize winners stand up to Trump and water the New York Times again.

BarcelonaThe centenary Pulitzer Prizes have an editorial focus, and their list of winners often conveys a message about the current state of journalism. Following this tradition, this year's list of nominees can be clearly interpreted as a warning to Donald Trump, as most of the winners have either suffered the current American president's hostility or can relate to his victory.

The most obvious example is the four awards the Pulitzer Prize has won. New York Times, a go-to outlet for progressive elites and a frequent victim of the Republican president's invective. Specifically, it is recognized in the categories of explanatory, local, and international reporting, as well as current affairs photography (for an image that captured one of the bullets fired in the failed attempt on Trump's life). The Gray Lady, as it is popularly known, remains the media outlet with the most awards in the 109 editions of the awards instituted by editor Joseph Pulitzer with the aim of promoting good journalism (and, in the process, clearing his name as a promoter of tabloid headlines).

The ProPublica Foundation embodies another clear example of a deliberate verdict. It takes home what is surely the most coveted award: the one given for public service. This non-profit digital media outlet emerged victorious thanks to its investigations into pregnant women who died because the doctors treating them delayed the treatment they needed for fear of violating certain anti-abortion laws in some of the most belligerent American states.

This year's current affairs coverage is named after the Washington Post, who is being recognized for all the work done around the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in the midst of the election campaign. The jury applauds his narration of the events and analysis, accompanied by audiovisual reconstructions. But Jeff Bezos' newspaper, which is suffering an internal fracture between ownership and editorial staff due to the change in direction its owner has made, burying the hatchet he had with Trump, wins another, more significant award: the one given to Ann Telnaes, a cartoonist for the paper for 17 years, from which she resigned four months ago upon seeing her census. big-tech, like Bezos himself, prostrated before the then president-elect.

Another media outlet unequivocally aligned against Trump is The New YorkerThe jury wanted to sweeten the magazine's centenary, which is being celebrated this year, with three awards: one for Mosab Abu Toha's columns on the pain caused in Gaza, another for Moises Saman's harrowing black and white photographs in the Syrian prison of Sednaya, and a third for the podcast In the dark, focusing on the murder of 25 Iraqi civilians in Haditha by US military personnel.

The list of winners is completed by Reuters (for an investigation into the fentanyl epidemic), the Wall Street Journal (for his coverage of the world's richest man, Elon Musk), Esquire (for the investigation into a Baptist pastor and small-town mayor who committed suicide after a far-right website revealed his secret digital life), Bloomberg City Lab (for a series of analyses on family spaces in urban planning), and the Houston Chronicle (for exposé reports focusing on dangerous level crossings).

Beyond the journalistic categories, the awards also highlight what they consider to be the most successful of the previous year's cultural harvest. This year, the award winners were the novel James, by Percival Everett; the work Purpose, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; the biography Every living thing: the great and deadly race to know all life, written by Jason Robert about two rival scientists from the 17th century, and the autobiographical book Feeding ghosts: a graphic memoir, by Tessa Hulls. Two historical essays also received awards: Combee. Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River raid, and Black freedom during the Civil War, by Edda L. Fields-Black, and Native Nations: in millennium in North America, by Kathleen DuVal. In poetry, the winner was Marie Howe for New and selected poems, and in the non-fiction section the award goes to Every event of our hopeless cause: the many lives of the Soviet dissident movement, by Benjamines Nathans. Finally, in the music category, the honor goes to Susie Ibarra, for Sky Islands.