Cardinal alum wins Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest honor

Congratulations to alum Kyeland Jackson for winning a Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest honor.

Jackson and the staff of The Minnesota Star Tribune won a newsroom-wide Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. The team of reporters were recognized for their extensive coverage of a shooting at a back-to-school Mass at a Catholic school that left two children dead and 28 wounded.

The Pulitzer Prize Board called the coverage “powerful stories marked by thoroughness and compassion.” The winners were announced May 4 at Columbia University.

Jackson worked at The Louisville Cardinal, the University of Louisville’s independent student news source, from 2015 to 2017. He was Editor-in-Chief in 2016-17 and in Fall 2017. He joined The Minnesota Star Tribune in 2022.

For more details, see the article in The Louisville Cardinal:
https://www.louisvillecardinal.com/2026/05/former-cardinal-editor-in-chief-wins-pulitzer-prize/

For additional information, go to:
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/star-tribune-pulitzer-church-shooting-breaking-news-reporting/

To read the winning work from The Minnesota Star Tribune, go to:
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-minnesota-star-tribune

Photo: The Pulitzer Prize gold medal. The medal is awarded each year to the American news organization that wins the Public Service category. Winners in other categories such as Breaking News Reporting receive a certificate and $15,000. However, over the years the medal has come to symbolize the entire Pulitzer program. Source: https://www.pulitzer.org/page/medal