Pablo Torre left the worldwide leader in sports to start a podcast. It just won a Pulitzer.

‘Pablo Torre Finds Out’ earned the Audio Reporting prize for a deeply reported investigation into an NBA salary cap workaround

The Pulitzer Prizes — the most prestigious awards in journalism — were announced Monday. The prizes, of course, recognized dozens of winners and finalists, showing elite journalism is still alive and well. Among the work was coverage of critically important topics such as immigration, the war in Gaza, the harms of social media to children, a horrific school shooting and how President Donald Trump has used his position for personal financial gain and to exact vengeance on his perceived enemies.

I’ll get into some of the more interesting stories in today’s special Pulitzer edition of The Poynter Report in a moment.

But I wanted to start with the winner in Audio Reporting.