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took the top investigative reporting prize for their coverage of a University of Southern California gynecologist accused of violating hundreds of young women over more than 25 years.

Hannah Dreier of ProPublica was honored in the feature writing category what the Pulitzer committee wrote was “for a series of powerful, intimate narratives that followed Salvadoran immigrants on New York’s Long Island whose lives were shattered by a botched federal crackdown on the international criminal gang MS-13.”

Local reporting honors went to the staff of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for their “damning portrayal of the state’s discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused’s guilt.”

Coverage of President Trump led to separate reporting honors (and some the biggest cheers among the journalists attending the luncheon): David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of the New York Times won for an 18-month investigation of the President’s finances that debunked his claims of self-made wealth.

And the staff of the Wall Street Journal was recognized for uncovering payments then-candidate Trump made to two women who claimed to have an affair with him.