New York Times journalist Malachy Browne has won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on a series of stories about Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime.
The Limerick native works as part of a visual investigations team for the US news organisation.
The team was acknowledged with an international reporting prize for its work, which included Mr Browne's documenting of a Russian bombing campaign in Syria.
This year, the awards were announced online as a result of the coronavirus.
Mr Browne's work was part of a series "of enthralling stories, reported at great risk, exposing the predations of Vladimir Putin's regime", according to the organisers of the prestigious award ceremony.
The New York Times picked up the most awards as the 2020 winners were announced yesterday.
Prize board administrator Dana Canedy declared the winners from her living room via a live stream on YouTube rather than at a ceremony at New York's Columbia University.
Cockpit tapes prove Russia bombed hospitals in Syria. Four in just one day. Our latest, with @trbrtc @evanchill @whitney_hurst @dim109 @DrewJordan_NYT @bottidavid @markscheffler @ndgauss & more https://t.co/PGBcWdO7E4
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) October 13, 2019
The Times collected three awards, including for Brian M Rosenthal's investigative report into New York City's taxi industry, which revealed predatory loans that took advantage of vulnerable drivers.
The paper's Nikole Hannah-Jones won best commentary for a personal essay that viewed America's origins through the lens of enslaved Africans.
The Pulitzers are generally regarded as the highest honour that US-based journalists and organisations can receive.
Reuters won the breaking news photography award for pictures of the Hong Kong protests.
The Courier-Journal in Lexington, Kentucky, won the breaking news reporting prize for its coverage of hundreds of last-minute pardons from Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin.
Courier Journal wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Matt Bevin's pardons https://t.co/Hm8MIpMcnP
— Courier Journal (@courierjournal) May 4, 2020
The explanatory reporting prize was awarded to the staff of The Washington Post for a series that showed the effects of extreme temperatures on the planet.
The Baltimore Sun took home the local reporting accolade for reporting on a financial relationship between the city's mayor and a public hospital system that her office oversaw.
Two organisations won the national reporting award: ProPublica for an investigation into a series of accidents in the US Navy and The Seattle Times for coverage that exposed design flaws in Boeing's 737 Max.
Ben Taub of The New Yorker won the feature writing award for a story on a Guantanamo Bay guard's friendship with a captor who was tortured.
The Associated Press was awarded the feature photography prize for images showing life in the contested Kashmir as India revoked its semi-autonomous status.
A special citation was awarded to Ida B Wells, an early pioneer of investigative journalism and a civil rights icon.
