The Pulitzer Prize Board debuted two new categories Monday, announcing winners in Beat Reporting and Opinion Writing. The former was last awarded in 2006, while the latter is a result of the board combining the Editorial Writing and Commentary categories. It is the first major change to the prizes — the most prestigious award in journalism — since the board introduced the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category in 2022 as a replacement for Editorial Cartooning. Reuters journalists Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham won the Beat Reporting category for their reporting on Meta , which revealed that the company has exposed users to scams, banned products and manipulation by artificial intelligence chatbots. New York Times opinion columnist M. Gessen won in Opinion Writing for their reported essays about rising authoritarian regimes that drew from both history and personal experience.  The new categories in part reflect shifting priorities in newsrooms.…