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Pulitzer Prizes
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Joseph Pulitzer is truly one of the great names in journalism. Pulitzer, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The New York World, was also the man who endowed the first school of journalism in the United States at Columbia University.
In his 1904 will, Pulitzer created the Pulitzer Prizes as a way of incentivizing journalists around the country. The original Pulitzer Prizes provided for solely four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one for education, and four traveling scholarships.
The four awards for letters were as follows: an American novel, an American play (which had to be performed in New York City), an American biography and a history of public service by the press.
The fist Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917. Over the years, the Pulitzers have been expanded greatly with awards issued for music, poetry and photography. Keeping up with the times, online journalism is also honored by the Pulitzers.
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April 20, 2009 (New York City) - The New York Times won five Pulitzer Prizes today, including Breaking News Reporting, International Reporting, and Criticism.
Other big winners included Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, who won for Commentary and Steve Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune, who picked up his second Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
The St. Petersburg Times Staff won for National Reporting, while staffer Lane Gregory took the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
In Letters, Drama and Music, Elizabeth Strout won for Fiction (Olive Kitteridge) and Lynn Nottage won for Drama (Ruined). |
New York, NY (April 7, 2008)—The 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced today by Columbia University.
The winners in each category, along with the names of the finalists in the competition, follow:
A. PRIZES IN JOURNALISM
1. PUBLIC SERVICE
For a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper through the use of its journalistic resources which, as well as reporting, may include editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics and online material, a gold medal.
Awarded to The Washington Post for the work of Dana Priest, Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials.
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: The Charlotte Observer for its illuminating examination of the mortgage and housing crisis in the newspaper’s community and state, resulting in federal probes and changes in a major lender’s practices, and Newsday, Long Island, N.Y., for its comprehensive investigation into the hazardous gap between a New York railroad’s trains and its boarding platforms, spotlighting individual injuries and triggering a multi-million-dollar remedy by the railway. |
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