Watch: The Minnesota Star Tribune wins the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Annunciation shooting.
In a note to the newsroom, masthead editors said:
“Your journalism stood out on that miserable day, and in the many since, for the emotion it channeled. Great journalism makes people feel something, and this newsroom has produced more of it in the past year than any we know. …
As we receive this recognition, we are all thinking about the Annunciation families who trusted us with their stories and their pain. We are also deeply grateful to our subscribers for paying for journalism that makes an impact. And we’re inspired every day by the professionalism and care you bring to this essential work.”
The Minnesota Star Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its newsroomwide coverage of a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church last summer. Marjorie Miller, administrator of the Pulitzers, said in announcing this year’s awards on May 4 that the coverage included “powerful stories marked by thoroughness and compassion.”
In its application to the Pulitzer board for work produced in 2025, the Star Tribune noted the newsroom decided early on that the shooting would not be quickly forgotten by the masses as another American tragedy. Instead, the staff would “hold up Annunciation’s pain and ask our readers to reckon with it.” Several reporters live in the south Minneapolis neighborhood near the school or attend mass at Annunciation. One editor’s child was in the service.
“For the journalists in our newsroom, it was personal and up-close,” said Kathleen Hennessey, editor and senior vice president of the Minnesota Star Tribune. “I’d be crazy to say in a newsroom full of parents, it didn’t hit a certain nerve.”
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Photo: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Meet Francisco Gutierrez, a multiplatform editor at the Star Tribune. He’s wicked fast 🏃
As a multiplatform editor, he edits copy for digital and print, curates the homepage and works on the print paper. He may have edits for this caption after it’s posted.
Expect more videos like this featuring the Strib’s newsroom staff.
📹: Casey Darnell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
The front page of the Star Tribune on April 22, 2016, the day after Prince’s death. The other four versions of the front page are from the May 1 special section, which was distributed across the state.
April 22 design by @meesgreg /The Minnesota Star Tribune. Cover photos by @rtsongphoto and David Brewster/The Minnesota Star Tribune; Michael Ochs/Getty and Robert Whitman. Illustrations by @cracked_hat_illustration
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Congrats to the @startribune photojournalism staff!
@alexkormann12 was recognized with two Awards of Excellence at the Pictures of the Year contest for his Spot News photographs of his manhunt for Vance Boelter, above, and in the Sports Picture Story category for his story on Anishinaabe Beargrease musher Jesse Terry. Kormann also won second place in Best of Photojournalism’s Sports Picture Story for his work on Terry.
The Star Tribune was a finalist in the Pictures of the Year Online Storytelling Project of the Year for its piece looking back at the six days after George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis.
@lizrflores was a finalist for the Pictures of the Year Community Awareness Award for her work documenting the immigrant community in Minnesota as they live in the shadow of ICE.
Additional honors at the Best of Photojournalism awards:
Star Tribune photo editors were recognized as the third place Picture Editing Team of the Year – Local/Community.
Photo editor @g_isforgenevieve placed first in the Newspaper Front Page editing category; photo editor @emljohnson took second place.
Ross placed second in the Newspaper General News Story category.
The Minnesota Star Tribune earned eight Top 10 honors for work published in 2025 from Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) in the top national sports journalism contest.
Three of those top 10s came in the categories needed to win a Triple Crown award: print portfolio, digital portfolio and projects.
The APSE contest featured entries from more than 200 member organizations from across the country, divided into four divisions based on print and digital subscribers.
The Star Tribune joins the Athletic, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times and Washington Post as Triple Crown winners in Division A, which is composed of the largest news organizations.
Photos by Elizabeth Flores @lizrflores , Aaron Lavinsky @adlavinsky , Jerry Holt @boyle1960 , Carlos Gonzalez @carlosgphoto , Alex Kormann @alexkormann12 /The Minnesota Star Tribune.
