 So what makes a work worthy of a Pulitzer Prize? In describing the selection of Dickerson's work, the jury praised the groundbreaking reporting that went beyond all other news organizations and provided definitive answers into how and why the nation's controversial child separation policy was set in motion. Dickerson, the judges went on, provides one of the rarest and most powerful examples of governmental accountability that journalism has seen, the type that exemplifies the highest qualities of the Pulitzer tradition.