Hannah Natanson, a *Washington Post* reporter, won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service on Monday, four months after FBI agents searched her home in connection with a classified leaks investigation. The award recognizes her team’s work exposing the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal workforce—described as ‘piercing the veil of secrecy’ by the Pulitzer board. Natanson, 29, had spent the prior year reporting on administrative cuts, including posting tip requests on Reddit and Signal to connect with federal employees—actions she later detailed in a Pulitzer-nominated first-person essay.

The FBI’s search, which seized her devices containing personal and journalistic materials, upended her life; she and the *Post* are still fighting to retrieve the devices from the Justice Department’s review.