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  News Release 4/2005: RTF alumnus wins Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism
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.
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.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/2005/04/communication19.html   (495 words)

  
 Globe reporter Cook wins Pulitzer Honored for work on stem cell issues - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe's Gareth Cook won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism yesterday for his coverage of the scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research.
The prize for breaking news went to The (Newark) Star-Ledger for its reporting on the resignation of New Jersey's governor, James McGreevey.
The prize was a coup for the paper, an alternative weekly that has a circulation of less than 90,000.
www.boston.com /ae/media/articles/2005/04/05/globe_reporter_cook_wins   (865 words)

  
 Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, literature, music and drama were established by the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, a 19th century journalist.
Administered by the Columbia School of Journalism, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded "for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life." Each winner receives a gold medal as well as a cash award of $10,000 (raised in 2003 from $7500).
Many Pulitzer Prize Winners go on to receive other literary awards such as the Nobel Prize in Literature.
almaz.com /pulitzer   (141 words)

  
 sfweekly.com - News - The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Relations
Witherspoon's organization has, since last year, pushed a PR campaign, financed by a $500,000 donation from San Francisco philanthropist George Miller, aimed at planting media stories based on the idea that the Hetch Hetchy reservoir should be drained in order to restore the mountain valley it fills.
This Pulitzer Prize went to a project that, in terms of journalistic excess, rivals former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines' 2002 crusade, which seemed aimed at forcing the Augusta National Golf Club to accept women as members.
The Bee series violated two journalistic tenets of the sort taught at the Pulitzers' sponsoring institution, Columbia University, one of which insists that journalists report on news, and not invent pseudo-events, then report on their invention.
sfweekly.com /issues/2005-04-13/news/smith.html   (973 words)

  
 Playbill News: John Patrick Shanley's Doubt Wins 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer is the first significant theatre prize Shanley has claimed in his quarter century as a playwright.
The play, which already won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, is a comedic account of a home in disarray in which a successful doctor discovers that her husband is having an affair with one of his patients.
The Pulitzer Prize — named for American journalist and publisher Joseph Pulitzer — was established in 1917, a stipulation of Mr.
www.playbill.com /news/article/92095.html   (1074 words)

  
 Public Relations | Press Releases
Margolin and the rest of the staff of the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, N.J. won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category for the paper’s coverage of Gov. James E. McGreevey’s bombshell resignation last August.
A Pulitzer jury of five newspaper executives saluted the Star-Ledger’s "comprehensive, clear-headed coverage" of the McGreevey resignation in announcing the prize April 4, 2005.
The other two finalists for the breaking news prize were the Charlotte Sun and the South Florida Sun Sentinel, both of which were nominated for coverage of hurricanes that hit Florida last summer.
www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/pr/press/2005/47.html   (426 words)

  
 Pulitzer Pairs For LA Times, WSJ - CBS News
Two prizes were awarded for international reporting: Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times for her reporting from Russia and Newsday's Dele Olojede for his look at Rwanda a decade after its genocidal civil war.
Each prize is worth $10,000, except for public service, which is recognized with a gold medal.
The Pulitzer for fiction went to Marilynne Robinson for "Gilead," her poetic, modern-day tale of a dying Iowa preacher.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/04/entertainment/main685514.shtml   (1158 words)

  
 UI Faculty Member Robinson Wins Pulitzer Prize For 'Gilead' - University News Service - The University of Iowa
Marilynne Robinson, a faculty member in the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, was identified today as the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
Some 40 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to UI faculty members and alumni, including 26 prizes to writers associated with the Writers' Workshop.
Her first novel, "Housekeeping," was a Pulitzer finalist two decades ago, when it won the PEN/Hemingway Award.
www.news-releases.uiowa.edu /2005/april/040405pulitzer-robinson.html   (723 words)

  
 2005 Pulitzer Prizes For Photography
The Associated Press won the Pulitzer for Breaking News Photography for their coverage of the war in Iraq with a portfolio of images shot by both staff photographers and stringers inside dangerous Iraqi cities.
It's the 29th Pulitzer the Associated Press has won for photography, and their 48th Pulitzer Prize overall.
Gehrz was named NPPA's Best Of Photojournalism 2005 Newspaper Photographer of the Year last week for his portfolio of work, which included the Jessica Clements essay.
www.nppa.org /news_and_events/news/2005/04/pulitzer.html   (615 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Poet Laureate to Speak on Campus
Ted Kooser, the U.S. poet laureate and 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, will speak at 8 p.m., Nov. 16 as part of the Adamson Visiting Writers Series.
Kooser won the Pulitzer for his book "Delights and Shadows," which was published by Copper Canyon Press.
Three of the last five Pulitzer winners, including Kooser, either started or spent some portion of their careers with the Carnegie Mellon University Press.
www.cmu.edu /cmnews/extra/051107_kooser.html   (210 words)

  
 Award-winners - Booker, Pulitzer, Nobel, Caldecott - Penguin Group (USA)
Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions.
2005 Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Coll provides the only comprehensive account to date of the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan.
J.M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 for his extensive body of work, including the Booker Prize winning Disgrace, now available as a Penguin Essential Edition.
us.penguingroup.com /static/html/awards/index.html   (224 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
The fiction jury had unanimously recommended the 1974 award to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction   (297 words)

  
 On Campus - RTF alumnus wins Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism
Radio-Television-Film (RTF) alumnus John Moore was part of an Associated Press team of 11 photographers who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in photography in the breaking news category for coverage of the conflict in Iraq.
The Pulitzer Prize for photography was established in 1942, and was divided in 1968 into spot or breaking news and feature photography.
A list of former College of Communication students who are Pulitzer Prize winners can also be found online.
www.utexas.edu /opa/ic/oncampus/2005/april/moore.html   (319 words)

  
 NPR : The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 2005 Pulitzer Prize winners include Steve Coll for Ghost Wars, his nonfiction book on Afghanistan, John Patrick Shanley for his play on child molestation in the Catholic Church and the poetry of Ted Kooser (left).
April 5, 2005 · Michele Norris talks with Santiago Lyon, director of photography for the Associated Press, about the team of AP photographers whose work in Iraq over the past year earned them the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
April 4, 2005 · Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's American Life In Poetry is a free weekly column providing a brief poem and description as a way to bring verse to the masses.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4577478   (605 words)

  
 THE BOSTON GLOBE’S GARETH COOK WINS 2005
Boston, April 4, 2005 --- Boston Globe reporter Gareth Cook today was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for “explaining, with clarity and humanity, the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research.”
It was the newspaper’s 18th Pulitzer since 1966 and its third in the past five years.
The Globe last won a Pulitzer in 2003 when it was awarded the gold medal for public service in recognition of its reporting on widespread clergy sexual abuse and its cover-up in the Catholic Church.
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 Steven Stucky Concerto Wins Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Steven Stucky was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Music on Monday for “Second Concerto for Orchestra,” which received its world premiere March 12, 2004, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
Other honors include the ASCAP Victor Herbert Prize from the American Society of University Composers and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
The Pulitzer Prize in Music is awarded for a “distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year.” It includes a $10,000 cash prize.
www.yaddo.org /yaddo/stevenstucky.shtml   (306 words)

  
 PlaybillArts: News: Steven Stucky Wins Pulitzer Prize for Music
The $10,000 prize is awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board for a "distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year."
He was a finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for his first Concerto for Orchestra.
In recent years, the Pulitzer board has come under criticism for its almost exclusive focus on classical music—Wynton Marsalis's jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields, which won in 1997, is the sole exception—and its orientation toward academic composers.
www.playbillarts.com /news/article/1764.html   (783 words)

  
 News reporter Dele Olojede wins 2005 Pulitzer Prize Jet - Find Articles
Dele Olojede, a former Africa correspondent for Newsday newspaper in Long Island, NY, is the only Black to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for 2005.
Olojede received the Pulitzer in the category of International Reporting for his "fresh haunting look at Rwanda a decade after rape and genocidal slaughter had ravaged the Tutsi tribe." He shares the honor with Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times for her story on Russian terrorism.
The Pulitzer Prize, awarded by Columbia University, is considered journalism's top honor.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_17_107/ai_n13779374   (261 words)

  
 eBranch Blog: 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
The 2005 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday, April 4.
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists.
A gyroscope balanced between a child's hands, a jar of buttons that recalls generations of women, and a bird briefly witnessed outside a window -- each reveals the remarkable within an otherwise ordinary world.
www.hcpl.net /ebranch/news/archives/000270.html   (403 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 'Gilead' captures Pulitzer Prize for fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
John Patrick Shanley won the drama prize for a play that deals with a priest suspected of molesting a child and with a nun who takes him on, defying a patriarchal church.
The prizes of $10,000 each are awarded by Columbia University upon the recommendation of an 18-member Pulitzer board.
In lieu of the cash prize, the winner in public service receives a gold medal.
usatoday.com /life/people/2005-04-04-pulitzer-winners_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (500 words)

  
 Brandeis University :: News
University Professor David Hackett Fischer, the internationally esteemed historian, has won a 2005 Pulitzer Prize for his book, Washington's Crossing.
The award for Fischer marks the second time that a faculty member from the History Department at Brandeis has won a Pulitzer.
On Monday, Fischer, a longtime Brandeis history professor and a resident of Wayland, received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for history making him not just any "storyteller" but, according to his colleagues, one of the finest of our time.
my.brandeis.edu /news/item?news_item_id=103702&show_release_date=1   (1561 words)

  
 Cornell News: Steven Stucky wins 2005 Pulitzer Prize for music
A Cornell alumnus was among another group of Pulitzer Prize recipients named April 4.
The staff of The Star-Ledger (New Jersey) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of former Gov. James McGreevey's August 2004 announcement that he would resign as a result of a gay affair.
One of the lead writers on the stories was John Hassell '91, who was a political reporter with the Star-Ledger.
www.news.cornell.edu /Stories/April05/Stucky.Pulitzer.fac.html   (471 words)

  
 Let Us Now Praise Claudia Rosett
Of course it is possible that the press poobahs will pass Rosett by when the 2005 Pulitzers are announced on April 4 at 3:00 p.m.
The Pulitzers are a uniquely politicized set of awards, now under the increased burden of brushing up the reputation of the increasingly decrepit mainstream media.
Whether or not the Pulitzer committee recognizes Rosett for her incredible contribution to freedom through her superb journalism over the past few years, those who follow the media know she is the standard setter.
weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/364rxwlt.asp   (491 words)

  
 Playbill News: Who Are the Contenders for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama? Is There Any Doubt?
The winner and nominated finalists for this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama will be announced at Columbia University's School of Journalism on April 4.
"Columbia University awards the Pulitzer Prize in Drama annually on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board, which acts on the nominations of a distinguished committee of Pulitzer Drama Jurors," according to www.Pulitzer.org.
As a possible contender for the 2005 Tony Awards, it is considered an underdog entertainment with a big heart and big laughs.
www.playbill.com /news/article/92050.html   (1679 words)

  
 HPH NOW, June 8, 2005, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Provides Inside Look at News Reporting
Instead, he was intrigued by the polarizing subject, one that had alternatively painted scientists as restorers of hope for sick patients and as killers of unborn babies for research.
In April 2005, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced that Cook had won in the category of explanatory writing.
Fresh from the announcement, Cook visited students in May in the course "Media and Health Communications: Practical Skills," taught by HSPH Director of Communications Robin Herman; Director of the Division of Public Health Practice Howard Koh; and Director of the Center for Health Communication Jay Winsten.
www.hsph.harvard.edu /now/jun8/pulitzer.html   (597 words)

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