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 So You Won a Pulitzer - Who cares? By Jack Shafer
I doubt that one newspaper reader in 10,000 could tell you a day after the Pulitzers are awarded who got the prize for explanatory reporting.
In the late '60s, the Pulitzers expanded with the profligacy of the National Hockey League, growing to 10 by 1968, 11 by 1970, and finally settling at today's 14 categories.
In a perfect world, the prizes would be treated as footnotes rather than the stuff of headlines, yet they make many a front page the day after they're announced, especially in the winning newspapers.
www.slate.com /id/2098361   (909 words)

  
 News Release 4/2004: Photojournalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for feature photography
The prize for photography was established in 1942, and was divided in 1968 into spot or breaking news and feature photography.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by a provision in the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.
Pulitzer created the prizes as an incentive to excellence in journalism, education, and letters and drama.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200404/nr_communication040426.html   (385 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize Photographs Exhibit - Maryville University
Consisting of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs from 1942 to the present, “Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs,” has been viewed by large, enthusiastic crowds throughout the United States and overseas, but this marks its premiere appearance in St. Louis.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established in 1911 in the fields of journalism, literature, music, and drama at the Columbia School of Journalism, to where Joseph Pulitzer, a 19th Century publisher and the founder of the Post-Dispatch, had left a bequest in his will.
The prize for photography is given for a distinguished example of breaking news or feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.
www.maryville.edu /pulitzer/exhibit   (385 words)

  
 Fil-Am photographer wins Pulitzer Prize - Apr. 08, 2004
The late Carlos P. Romulo, former foreign affairs secretary and the first Asian president of the United Nations General Assembly, was also a Pulitzer Prize awardee in 1942 for international correspondence, for a series of articles he wrote as a newspaperman at the Philippines Herald predicting the outbreak of World War II.
The Pulitzer Prize was set up by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American publisher in 1917.
The 119-year-old Dallas Morning News itself is a Pulitzer "veteran," having won seven awards in different categories, including investigative and international reporting.
www.inq7.net /nat/2004/apr/08/nat_6-1.htm   (577 words)

  
 News Release 4/2004: Photojournalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for feature photography
Pulitzer created the prizes as an incentive to excellence in journalism, education, and letters and drama.
Since 1917 when the first prizes were awarded, the Pulitzer Prize Board has increased the number of awards to 21 and introduced poetry, music and photography as subjects.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by a provision in the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200404/nr_communication040426.html   (385 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes
(1942-) won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 1975 for his work as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.
(1944-) shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for his work on a family’s struggle with poverty, illiteracy, crime, and drug abuse in Washington, D.C. Dash became a U of I faculty member in 1998 and is a Swanlund Chair and professor of journalism and Afro-American Studies.
(1890-1971) received the Pulitzer Prize in Biography twice: in 1933 for Grover Cleveland and in 1937 for Hamilton Fish.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (792 words)

  
 MNHS.ORG Exhibits The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment
“The Pulitzer Prize Photographs” includes all of the winning images starting in 1942 — the year of the first photography award — through the 2004 winners.
The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment was developed by the Newseum, the interactive museum of news, located in Arlington, VA. in association with Business of Entertainment, Inc., Cyma Rubin, Curator.
Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs, a companion book to the exhibit, features the story behind each winning photograph, biographies of the prize-winning photographers and new interviews with many of the surviving photographers.
www.mnhs.org /exhibits/pulitzer/exhibit.htm   (621 words)

  
 Photography - Pulitzer Prize Collection at GALLERY M
And certainly, the lasting influence of the Pulitzer Prizes on journalism, literature, music, and drama is to be attributed to his visionary acumen.
In writing his 1904 will, which made provision for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes as an incentive to excellence, Pulitzer specified solely four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one for education, and four traveling scholarships.
The Associated Press Pulitzer Prize photographs are exclusively represented in the Rocky Mountain Region by GALLERY M. Reference: The Pulitzer Prize and The Associated Press
www.gallerym.com /artist.cfm?ID=28   (404 words)

  
 The Haggin Museum - Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs - Pulitzer Prize Facts
The Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism was established in 1942.
The Pulitzer Board has the power to deny an award if they feel that none of the entries measure up to the standards of the prize, an option they have exercised only once in 1946.
In 1968, the Pulitzer Board established two Pulitzer Prize for photography, Spot or Breaking News and Feature, both judged by the same jury.
www.hagginmuseum.org /exhibitions/pulitzer/facts.htm   (277 words)

  
 Frost, Robert Lee
Other works include North of Boston (1914), New Hampshire (1924; Pulitzer Prize), Collected Poems (1930; Pulitzer Prize), A Further Range (1936; Pulitzer Prize), and A Witness Tree (1942; Pulitzer Prize).
In 1915 Frost returned to the USA and held various university posts; he was professor of poetry at Harvard 1936.
In 1961 he read his ‘The Gift Outright’ at the inauguration of US president, John F Kennedy.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0029363.html   (277 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes
(1942-) won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 1975 for his work as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.
(1944-) shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for his work on a family’s struggle with poverty, illiteracy, crime, and drug abuse in Washington, D.C. Dash became a U of I faculty member in 1998 and is a Swanlund Chair and professor of journalism and Afro-American Studies.
(1924-) shared the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Local General Spot News Reporting with fellow U of I alumnus Arthur M. Petacque for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder case of Illinois Sen. Charles Percy’s daughter.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (792 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes
(1942-) won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 1975 for his work as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.
(1944-) shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for his work on a family’s struggle with poverty, illiteracy, crime, and drug abuse in Washington, D.C. Dash became a U of I faculty member in 1998 and is a Swanlund Chair and professor of journalism and Afro-American Studies.
(1924-) shared the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Local General Spot News Reporting with fellow U of I alumnus Arthur M. Petacque for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder case of Illinois Sen. Charles Percy’s daughter.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (792 words)

  
 Celebrating Women's History Month
The Pulitzer Prize, named after the Hungarian-born journalist Joseph Pulitzer, was first established in 1917 as an incentive to achieve excellence.
A native of Newburgh, Margaret Leech was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for history and the only woman to gain that recognition twice.
Leech’s first Pulitzer came in 1942 for Reveille in Washington, her book on the nation’s capital during the Civil War period.
www.senate.state.ny.us /sws/wod/ed_leech.html   (195 words)

  
 Lessons from a Pinay Pulitzer photo winner - Apr. 17, 2004
But US Pulitzer Prize winner for photography Cheryl Diaz Meyer did not go without imparting a message to Filipinos in an exclusive talk with the Inquirer: Have a dream and pursue it at all costs.
The first was the late journalist-diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, who won the prestigious prize in 1942 for a series of articles on the tense situation ahead of the outbreak of World War II.
In what seemed like a coincidence, Meyer's subject was also about war-she had been assigned in Iraq and her pictures that won her the prize in the photography category were about the Iraq war.
www.inq7.net /nat/2004/apr/17/nat_11-1.htm   (524 words)

  
 Asian Journal Online
The late Carlos P. Romulo, former foreign affairs secretary and the first Asian president of the United Nations General Assembly, was also a Pulitzer Prize awardee in 1942 for international correspondence, for a series of articles he wrote as a newspaperman at the Philippines Herald predicting the outbreak of World War II.
The Pulitzer Prize was set up by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American publisher in 1917.
AN AWARD-WINNING Filipino-American woman photographer who had joined journalists embedded with US military forces in Iraq last year, won yet another accolade on Monday-the highly coveted Pulitzer Prize for photography, sharing the honor with a colleague from the Dallas Morning News.
www.asianjournal.com /cgi-bin/view_info.cgi?category=BN&code=00004423   (575 words)

  
 News Release 4/2004: Photojournalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for feature photography
The prize for photography was established in 1942, and was divided in 1968 into spot or breaking news and feature photography.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by a provision in the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.
Pulitzer created the prizes as an incentive to excellence in journalism, education, and letters and drama.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200404/nr_communication040426.html   (385 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes
(1942-) won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 1975 for his work as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.
(1944-) shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for his work on a family’s struggle with poverty, illiteracy, crime, and drug abuse in Washington, D.C. Dash became a U of I faculty member in 1998 and is a Swanlund Chair and professor of journalism and Afro-American Studies.
(1924-) shared the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Local General Spot News Reporting with fellow U of I alumnus Arthur M. Petacque for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder case of Illinois Sen. Charles Percy’s daughter.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (802 words)

  
 Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences: Pulitizer Prize Winner
Rick Atkinson, who graduated from the English Department in 1973, has been awarded a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his World War II book, "An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943," the first volume of his Liberation Trilogy.
In 1982 Atkinson received a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and in 1999 Pulitzer Prize to the Washington Post for public service for a series of investigative articles called "Deadly Force" edited by Atkinson about shootings by the District of Columbia police department.
Atkinson has also received the 1983 Livingston Award for international reporting, the 1989 John Hancock Award for Excellence, the 1990 George Polk Award for national reporting, and a 1990 PEN special citation for non-fiction.
www.artsci.ecu.edu /cas/administration/pulitzer.html   (194 words)

  
 So You Won a Pulitzer - Who cares? By Jack Shafer
I doubt that one newspaper reader in 10,000 could tell you a day after the Pulitzers are awarded who got the prize for explanatory reporting.
In the late '60s, the Pulitzers expanded with the profligacy of the National Hockey League, growing to 10 by 1968, 11 by 1970, and finally settling at today's 14 categories.
In a perfect world, the prizes would be treated as footnotes rather than the stuff of headlines, yet they make many a front page the day after they're announced, especially in the winning newspapers.
www.slate.com /id/2098361   (930 words)

  
 PlanetOut News: Pro-Gay Editorials Win Pulitzer
A small Vermont newspaper took home the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for its columns in support of civil unions for same-sex couples.
The paper's publisher, R. John Mitchell, wrote in an editorial published Tuesday that Moats' work followed in the tradition of his father, Robert W. Mitchell, the Herald's editor and publisher from 1942 to 1993.
The Pulitzer is the first for the 207-year-old paper -- and the first for any Vermont publication.
www.planetout.com /news/article-print.html?2001/04/17/1   (509 words)

  
 Newseum: Online Store
The only museum-quality catalog of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever produced, this 224-page softcover book contains stunning reproductions of photojournalism’s best, from the photograph that won the first Pulitzer Prize for photography in 1942 to the 2003 winners.
An entertaining and enlightening collection of the most influential American newspaper editorials ever published; selected and explained by journalist Michael Gartner, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
A companion to the Newseum’s traveling exhibit of the same name, the book features the story behind each winning photograph, biographies of the prize-winning photographers and new interviews with many of the surviving photographers.
giftshop.newseum.org   (223 words)

  
 Newseum: Online Store
The only museum-quality catalog of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever produced, this 224-page softcover book contains stunning reproductions of photojournalism’s best, from the photograph that won the first Pulitzer Prize for photography in 1942 to the 2003 winners.
An entertaining and enlightening collection of the most influential American newspaper editorials ever published; selected and explained by journalist Michael Gartner, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
A companion to the Newseum’s traveling exhibit of the same name, the book features the story behind each winning photograph, biographies of the prize-winning photographers and new interviews with many of the surviving photographers.
giftshop.newseum.org   (223 words)

  
 Unsentimental Biographer :: Writing a writer's life
During a 52-year writing career that began in 1942, Taylor's work won dozens of awards: Seven stories were chosen for the O. Henry Prize collection; 10 stories appeared in the Best American Short Stories anthologies; a novel won the Pulitzer Prize.
Hubert McAlexander's portrayal of the Pulitzer Prize winner captures Taylor's personal and professional life and the literary world in which he lived.
Seven of Taylor's stories were chosen for the O. Henry Prize collection; 10 stories appeared in the Best American Short Stories anthologies.
www.ovpr.uga.edu /researchnews/fall2003/bio03.htm   (223 words)

  
 Wilder
Among his plays are two Pulitzer Prize winners, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942).
Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), which firmly established him as a leading novelist of the twentieth century.
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his works.
www.fortunecity.com /bennyhills/keaton/345/wilder.htm   (223 words)

  
 News Release 4/2004: Photojournalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for feature photography
The prize for photography was established in 1942, and was divided in 1968 into spot or breaking news and feature photography.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by a provision in the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.
Pulitzer created the prizes as an incentive to excellence in journalism, education, and letters and drama.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200404/nr_communication040426.html   (385 words)

  
 Capture the Moment: Denver
The Pulitzer Board, which has created and modified award categories, added the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1942.
In his will, publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) established the Pulitzer Prizes for the fields of journalism, literature, music and drama in addition to establishing an advisory board to oversee the Pulitzer Prizes, with Columbia University as the administrator.
Janet Reeves, director of photography for the Rocky Mountain News, served as chair of the jury that selected both the breaking news and feature photography Pulitzer Prize recipients for 2004 which included a Boulder, Colo. native – Carolyn Cole.
www.postnewsads.com /capture_moment/about.asp   (758 words)

  
 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
In addition, former Washington Post assistant managing editor Rick Atkinson won the Pulitzer for history for An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943.
Columbia University announced the 2003 Pulitzer Prizes Monday afternoon.
For more information, visit the Pulitzer Web site.
www.editorandpublisher.com /editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1859048   (758 words)

  
 News Release 4/2004: Photojournalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for feature photography
The prize for photography was established in 1942, and was divided in 1968 into spot or breaking news and feature photography.
Since 1917 when the first prizes were awarded, the Pulitzer Prize Board has increased the number of awards to 21 and introduced poetry, music and photography as subjects.
A total of 19 former School of Journalism students have won Pulitzer Prizes; Cole is the third to win it more than once.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200404/nr_communication040426.html   (758 words)

  
 So You Won a Pulitzer - Who cares? By Jack Shafer
I doubt that one newspaper reader in 10,000 could tell you a day after the Pulitzers are awarded who got the prize for explanatory reporting.
In the late '60s, the Pulitzers expanded with the profligacy of the National Hockey League, growing to 10 by 1968, 11 by 1970, and finally settling at today's 14 categories.
In 1922, editorial cartoons were added; in 1929, correspondence; and in 1942 the count swelled to eight when photography and telegraphic reporting (both national and international) joined the roster.
www.slate.com /id/2098361   (882 words)

  
 Who Won The Nobel Prize For Literature In 1942
Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, and Pulitzer Prizes for four of his plays...
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www.nabsnet.org /who-won-the-nobel-prize-for-literature-in-1942.html   (213 words)

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