The series of stories penetrate the international trade in the chemicals used to make fentanyl, the drug at the heart of a crisis that has killed some 450,000 Americans and counting.

This year’s history category had two winners. Ms. DuVal was honored for “a vivid and accessible account” of Native American nations and communities over a thousand years, the committee said. Ms. Fields-Black won for “a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion.”

Reuters today was awarded a 2025 Pulitzer Prize in the Investigative Reporting category for "Fentanyl Express," a series of stories that penetrated the international trade in the chemicals used to make fentanyl,