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“America, Polarized”

Excellence in Narrative Human-Interest Storytelling, honoring Ernie Pyle

The New York Times, 2025

Author(s): Eli Saslow

Eli Saslow travels across a deeply divided nation, meeting people swept up in issues they thought they understood. He writes with power and empathy about their surprise, confusion, pain — and hope.

Honoring Ernie Pyle
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During World War II, Ernie Pyle worked for Scripps-Howard as a journalist embedded with the troops he chronicled. Readers in America saw the war through Ernie’s eyes as he recounted in detail the dangers the soldiers experienced and the fears they felt while serving on the front line.