The Anchorage Daily News (ADN) and the investigative website ProPublica are joint winners of the most prestigious of the annual Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, the Public Service Award.

The ADN and ProPublica collaborated on a lengthy series titled “Lawless,” which examined the failures of the criminal justice system in small, mostly rural Native Alaskan communities.

The Pulitzers for journalism in 2019 were announced Monday by Columbia University, three weeks after they were originally scheduled, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

ProPublica won a second Pulitzer as well, one of two national reporting prizes, for “Disaster in the Pacific,” an investigation of what it characterized as “staggering leadership failures” by U.S. Navy commanders that “led to deadly accidents in the Navy and Marines.” The other National Reporting prize went to the Seattle Times.

The New York Times received the most Pulitzers — three — including the Commentary award to Times Magazine correspondent Nikole Hannah-Jones, for an essay that led off the newspaper’s “1619 Project,” focusing on the consequences of slavery in the United States.

The Times also won the prize for Investigative Journalism, for a series on predatory loans aimed at New York City taxi drivers, many of whom spoke no English.

The remainder of the Pulitzers announced Monday and reported by Axios include:

Breaking News Reporting – Louisville [KY] Courier Journal; Explanatory Reporting – The Washington Post; Local Reporting – the staff of the Baltimore Sun; International Reporting – the staff of  The New York Times; Feature Writing – Ben Taub of the New Yorker magazine;

Criticism – Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times; Editorial Writing – Jeffrey Gerritt of the Palestine [TX] Herald-Press; Editorial Cartooning – Barry Blitt for the New Yorker; Breaking News Photography – the photography staff of the Reuters news agency; Feature Photography – three photographers who captured images of strife in Kashmir.

A first-ever Audio Reporting prize was awarded jointly to Molly O’Toole of the LA Times and Emily Green of Vice News.

The Pulitzer awards luncheon traditionally held at Columbia University in May will be postponed to the fall, with the date to be announced later.