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  Pulitzer Prizes
It’s the 49th Pulitzer for the world's oldest and largest news cooperative and the 30th awarded for AP photos.
With no single event dominating front pages in the manner of Hurricane Katrina or Sept. 11, the Pulitzer Prizes were scattered among 13 news organizations on a variety of subjects, and a live jazz recording won in the music category for the first time.
The Pulitzer Prizes, American journalism's most prestigious honor, were established by Joseph Pulitzer and are presented annually for outstanding achievement.
www.ap.org /pages/about/pulitzer/pulitzer.html   (891 words)

  
  Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer was the founder of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, as the eldest son of Hungarian Jews.
In the journalism the Prizes were awarded in the 1920s for exposing the practices of the Ku Klux Klan, revealing the dehumanizing prison conditions and exploring the problems of labor during a national coal strike.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /pulitzer.htm   (1158 words)

  
  Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pulitzer Prize for Music — for a distinguished musical contribution by an American that had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year.
Pulitzer Prize for Photography, was divided in 1968 into Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and a spot news category, which became the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, became the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (1207 words)

  
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Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States.
The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
The very first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4, 1917.
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer joined the Republican Party and was elected to the Missouri State Assembly.
Pulitzer also promised to use the paper to "expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses, and to battle for the people with earnest sincerity".
In 1890 Pulitzer withdrew from the editorship of the
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jpulitzer.htm   (1044 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   (262 words)

  
 The Pulitzer Prizes -- Search the Pulitzer Archives
A Pulitzer Prize Winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or a newspaper's staff.
Work that has been submitted for Prize consideration but not chosen as either a nominated finalist or a winner is termed an entry or submission.
The Public Service prize is always awarded to a newspaper, not an individual, although an individual may be named in the citation.
www.pulitzer.org /Archive/archive.html   (433 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Post Wins Pulitzer for Police Series
Pulitzer Prize winners Jeff Leen and Sari Horwitz discussed their work online.
The Miami Herald won the investigative reporting prize for revelations of voter fraud in a mayoral election that was eventually overturned.
For the first time in the history of the prestigious prizes -- which bring a $5,000 cash prize, a gala luncheon and the opening words of a journalist's obituary -- both prizes for photography went to staff members of the same organization.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/local/daily/april99/pulitzer13.htm   (1449 words)

  
 News Release 4/2004: Photojournalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for 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.
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/04newsreleases/nr_200404/nr_communication040426.html   (385 words)

  
 Photography - Pulitzer Prize Collection at GALLERY M
Hungarian-born, an intense indomitable figure, Pulitzer was the most skillful of newspaper publishers, a passionate crusader against dishonest government, a fierce, hawk-like competitor who did not shrink from sensationalism in circulation struggles, and a visionary who richly endowed his profession.
Pulitzer was the first to call for the training of journalists at the university level in a school of journalism.
And certainly, the lasting influence of the Pulitzer Prizes on journalism, literature, music, and drama is to be attributed to his visionary acumen.
www.gallerym.com /artist.cfm?ID=28   (404 words)

  
 American Hotel Guide - Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize was established to honor the king of newspaper, Joseph Pulitzer.
Joseph Pulitzer was born in 1849 in Hungary and immigrated to America.
Since 1890, Pulitzer made great efforts to improve the newspaper's quality and in doing this he established a graduate course in journalism at Columbia University and established the Pulitzer Prize.
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 CNN.com - September 11 coverage dominates Pulitzers - April 8, 2002
McWhorter won the Pulitzer in the general nonfiction category for her memoir of the Civil Rights struggle, "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution." It was her first book.
The prize for music was awarded to Henry Brant for "Ice Field." Brant works in what is called "spatial music," in which the instruments are spread throughout the concert hall.
In feature writing, the Pulitzer committee honored Barry Siegel of the Los Angeles Times for what the board called his "humane and haunting" story of a case involving a man, the death of his son, and the connection of the judge to the case.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/04/08/pulitzer.prizes/index.html   (723 words)

  
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(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
(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.
(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.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (792 words)

  
 "The Pulitzer Prize in Music: 1943-2002"
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Hungary and grew up amid affluence and aristocratic privilege.His decision to come to America in 1864 was a direct result of his determination to become a soldier.While on a visit to Germany, he had met U.S. recruiters and enlisted to fight as a Union soldier in the Civil War.
A controversial music Pulitzer was awarded in 1992 and spawned a tidal wave of responses and commentaries in newspapers throughout the country.
The 1996 prize was awarded to George Walker for his "Lilacs" (on a text from Walt Whitman for voice and orchestra) which was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
www.american.edu /heintze/Pul1.htm   (3152 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 prize for photography is given for a distinguished example of breaking news or feature photography in fl and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.
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.
www.maryville.edu /pulitzer/exhibit   (327 words)

  
 Changes to definition of Pulitzer for music spark dissonance - The Boston Globe
The Pulitzer Prize board has changed the language describing the prize for music in an effort to broaden the scope of the award while preserving its reputation for recognizing distinction.
It is an opening up to different styles and not at all to different levels of quality." John Harbison, on the other hand, calls the changes "a horrible development." "If you were to impose a comparable standard on fiction you would be soliciting entries from the authors of airport novels.
According to Jay Harris, a Pulitzer board member who headed the yearlong study of the music prize: "The board has been concerned for many years that the full range of exellence in American music was not somehow getting through the process in such a way that it could be properly and appropriately considered.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/06/01/changes_to_definition_of_pulitzer_for_music_spark_dissonance   (712 words)

  
 Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: A "Pulitzer Prize for Treason"
Yesterday, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau received well-deserved Pulitzer Prizes for "national reporting" based on their (year-long-delayed) disclosure of the President's illegal NSA eavesdropping program.
Today's Pulitzer Prize award to the Times brings a new shame to the Pulitzer Prize committee that builds on its disgrace last year via the award to the AP.
No, they win pulitzer prizes - they win pulitzer prizes - I don't think what they did was worthy of an award - I think what they did was worthy of jail, and I think this investigation needs to go forward.
glenngreenwald.blogspot.com /2006/04/pulitzer-prize-for-treason.html   (901 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- U-T, Copley News win Pulitzer Prize
The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service shared a Pulitzer Prize yesterday for reporting that disclosed the worst case of bribe-taking in the history of Congress and led to the imprisonment of a corrupted lawmaker and war hero.
Pulitzer Prizes for journalism are announced in New York.
This was the first Pulitzer Prize received by the Union-Tribune, although one of its predecessor publications won two such awards.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20060418-9999-1n18pulitzer.html   (1785 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Pulitzer Prize is a United States award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism.
The very first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4, 1917, and in recent times, they are announced each year, in the month of April.
According to the Pulitzer administrators, only the nominated finalists chosen by Pulitzer juries, usually three per category, are entitled to be called Pulitzer nominees, or finalists.
www.voyager.in /Pulitzer_Prizes   (862 words)

  
 Los Angeles Times wins 5 Pulitzer Prizes - The Boston Globe
The Wall Street Journal won two prizes, one in explanatory reporting, for Kevin Helliker's and Thomas M. Burton's examination of aneurysms, and another in beat reporting, for Daniel Golden's coverage of college admissions preferences for children of alumni and donors.
The Pulitzer in breaking-news photography went to The Dallas Morning News, for David Leeson's and Cheryl Diaz Meyer's coverage of the war in Iraq.
Columbia University, which administers the Pulitzers, announced that no award had been conferred for feature writing, for the first time since that category was created in 1979.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/04/06/los_angeles_times_wins_5_pulitzer_prizes   (792 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com Awards
Since 1917, the Pulitzer Prize for Letters has been awarded annually to American works of fiction, history, poetry, biography or autobiography, and general nonfiction.
The Pulitzer Prize for Letters is accompanied by a $5,000 award paid from Pulitzer endowments.
Joseph Pulitzer endowed the Pulitzer Prizes as well as what is now the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
www.barnesandnoble.com /awards/pulitzer_about.asp?userid=5QYX3NURVF&sourceid=00000108290009298299&pcount=0   (118 words)

  
 Joseph Pulitzer page 1
Pulitzer was born to a wealthy family in Hungary on April 10, 1847.
Pulitzer used another strategy to attract readers in addition to introducing new sections that dealt with women and sports.
Pulitzer even turned the presidential election of 1884 on its ear by exploiting a mistake made by the Republican candidate, James G. Blaine.
www.onlineconcepts.com /pulitzer   (543 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes | Campus Facts | Public Affairs | University of Illinois
(1932–;) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
(1924–;) shared the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Local General Spot News Reporting with fellow University of Illinois 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.
(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 University of Illinois faculty member in 1998 and is a Swanlund Chair and professor of journalism and Afro-American Studies.
www.publicaffairs.uiuc.edu /facts/pulitzer.html   (803 words)

  
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Some 40 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to UI faculty members or alumni, including 26 prizes to writers affiliated with the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Dunn said the full impact of winning the Pulitzer Prize had not hit him, a few minutes after the word was officially flashed over the news wires and the Pulitzer website.
The 2004 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 5 and will be presented on May 24 at Columbia University.
www.lycos.com /info/pulitzer-prize.html   (428 words)

  
 CNN - Pulitzer Prizes awarded - April 14, 1998
The prizes have been awarded by Columbia University since 1917, on the recommendation of a Pulitzer Prize Board.
The prizes in letters are for fiction, history, poetry, biography or autobiography, and general non-fiction.
There are 14 prizes given for journalism, and prizes for drama and music.
www.cnn.com /books/news/9804/14/pulitzers/index.html   (404 words)

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