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The Baltimore Banner wins its first Pulitzer
Less than three years after its launch, The Baltimore Banner has won its first Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest honor.
The Pulitzer board announced Monday that Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of the Banner had won the Local Reporting prize for a series they did as part The New York Times’ local investigations fellowship. The series explores Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis, finding that the city’s fatal overdose rate has reached unprecedented levels and that the response from local leaders has stalled and become “disjointed.”