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  Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS was written by 13 AP reporters and/or editors and draws largely from documents uncovered since the founding of the AP Corporate Archives in 2003.
The Associated Press is pleased to offer news outlets, universities and other groups a powerful multimedia package about BREAKING NEWS, that includes stories about the daring and dedicated journalists included in the book and a selection of iconic and unforgettable photographs.
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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, became the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
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.
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  Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
Breaking News Photography / Spot News Photography - For a distinguished example of breaking news photography in fl and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer travelling fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (786 words)

  
 Newseum | Exhibits and Theaters | Exhibits
Instant, breaking, historic news that is uncensored, diverse and free.
This gallery tells the timeless story of news, of many voices struggling to be heard, and of the people and machines that spread that news.
This gallery explores the horrendous events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the extraordinary challenges that faced the journalists trying to report the news to a shaken nation and world.
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 Storm-hit newspapers win Pulitzer - Boston.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two newspapers hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina won the top U.S. journalism prizes on Monday for their coverage of the storm -- even as the deadly water and wind damaged their offices and left many staffers homeless.
News of the prizes evoked tears and cheers from the reporters, editors and family members who gathered in the Times-Picayune newsroom in anticipation of the celebration.
The Pulitzer for Explanatory Reporting went to The Post's David Finkel for his case study of the U.S. government's attempt to bring democracy to Yemen.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/04/17/storm_hit_newspapers_win_pulitzer?mode=PF   (661 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
These are the Pulitzer Prize category definitions in the 2004 competition: The Pulitzer Prizes for 2005 were announced on 2005-04-04.
Breaking News Photography - For a distinguished example of breaking news photography in fl and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pulitzer-Prize   (2350 words)

  
 The Indian Express: Top stories: Full story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
New York, April 17: THE story of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who became the centre of an international custody tug-of-war, earned prestigious Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for the Miami Herald newspaper that reported the drama and a photographer who captured it on film.
The Pulitzer board cited the newspaper ‘‘for its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father’’.
The Pulitzer for breaking news photography was awarded to Alan Diaz of the Associated Press for his photograph of the armed US agents who seized the boy from the home of his Miami relatives.
www.indianexpress.com /ie20010418/int2.html   (483 words)

  
 CBS News | 2002 Pulitzer Prizes Announced | April 8, 2002 17:52:45
In breaking news reporting, the staff of The Wall Street Journal won for its coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center under the most difficult of circumstances, when the newsroom - in the shadows of the twin towers - was evacuated.
The breaking news award recognized the paper's "consistently outstanding photographic coverage of the terrorist attack on New York City and its aftermath," the Pulitzer Board said in announcing the prestigious prizes at Columbia University.
The prize for music was captured by Henry Brant, for "Ice Field." The Canadian-born Brant is a pioneer of spatial music, in which the instruments are dispersed around the concert hall.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/04/08/national/main505640.shtml   (1054 words)

  
 Living -The Olympian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The prize for international reporting went to Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post, for what the board called his “extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril,” the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended.
The Pulitzer for editorial writing was awarded to William Stall of the Los Angeles Times for his “incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.” While Stall has been with the paper 28 years, Neil joined the paper in September after freelancing.
The New York Times' award was for an unusual collaboration across media with the PBS program “Frontline” and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The piece examined worker safety at the foundries of McWane Inc., a cast-iron pipe manufacturer where lax enforcement of rules contributed to thousands of injuries and some deaths.
www.theolympian.com /home/news/20040406/living/20409.shtml   (976 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Cuban boy focus of Pulitzer prizes for news
NEW YORK - The story of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who became the center of an international custody battle, earned prestigious Pulitzer Prizes Monday for the Miami newspaper that reported the drama and a photographer who captured it on film.
The staff of the Miami Herald won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for its coverage of the raid that led to the 6-year-old Cuban child being reunited with his father.
The Pulitzer for breaking news photography was awarded to Alan Diaz of the Associated Press for his picture of the armed agents who seized the boy from his Miami relatives' home in a dramatic predawn raid on April 22, 2000.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1027384012653_22793212   (831 words)

  
 College of Communication
In 1978, Sherman transitioned to broadcast news, and later received an Emmy as a correspondent for ABC News and a Peabody Award as a correspondent and producer for Christian Science Monitor Reports.
He was part of the team that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for the Union-Tribune and Copley News Service for reporting that uncovered the largest bribes paid to a member of Congress and led to the imprisonment of former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham.
In 1999, she was a member of a Courant reporting team whose coverage of a Connecticut lottery worker’s shooting rampage won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.
www.bu.edu /com/pulitzer/alumni.html   (2537 words)

  
 NPPA: Carolyn Cole, David Leeson, Cheryl Diaz Meyer Win the Pulitzer Prizes for Photography
The Dallas Morning News reports that this is the first Pulitzer for Leeson, who has been with the paper since 1984 and has been a Pulitzer finalist three other times, and for Meyer, who was a finalist for the first time this year and who came to the News in 2000.
The finalists for this year's Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography included the Associated Press for their coverage of Iraq, and Chris Hondros Getty Images for coverage of the uprising in Liberia.
The Pulitzer Board said the AP coverage was "evocative, a panoramic portrayal of the war in Iraq." They also said that the photographs by Hondros were "powerful and courageous coverage of the bloody upheaval in Liberia," and that the Pulitzer jury moved his entry from the Feature Photography category to News.
www.nppa.org /news_and_events/news/2004/04/cole-leeson-meyer_win_pulitzers.html   (1245 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 'L.A. Times' wins 5 Pulitzer Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Times won five Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including for breaking news reporting for its coverage of the massive wildfires that ravaged Southern California last fall.
The prize for investigative reporting was awarded to Michael Sallah, Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr of The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, for their series on atrocities by Tiger Force, an elite U.S. Army platoon, during the Vietnam War.
The Pulitzer for editorial writing to William Stall of the Los Angeles Times for his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-04-05-pulitzers_x.htm   (790 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Church abuse coverage earns Pulitzer Prize
NEW YORK -- The Boston Globe won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for "courageous, comprehensive coverage" of the priest sex abuse scandal that led to sweeping changes in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church.
Florida's Pensacola News Journal was a finalist in the public service category for exposing a culture of government corruption that led to the indictment last year of four of the five Escambia County commissioners.
The prizes are awarded by Columbia University on recommendations of the Pulitzer board, which considers nominations from jurors in each category.
www.sptimes.com /2003/04/08/Worldandnation/Church_abuse_coverage.shtml   (411 words)

  
 Oregonian wins Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage - OregonLive.com: Breaking News Updates
The Oregonian staff today won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for its coverage of a family's disappearance in the southern Oregon woods and their father's desperate attempt to save them.
The Pulitzer is the seventh for The Oregonian and the fifth since 1999.
The reporting involved much of the newsroom staff, with reporters and photographers working in southern Oregon, as well as dozens of reporters, editors, copy editors and graphic artists reporting, publishing and producing in the Portland newsroom.
blog.oregonlive.com /breakingnews/2007/04/oregonian_wins_pulitzer_for_br.html   (619 words)

  
 About journalism -- A large and irreverent collection of quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The news media -- diluted of real meaning by apolitical and sterile context, homogenized with the growth of monopoly, overwhelmingly more of a service to merchants than to the audience, and filled with frivolous material -- are a threat to their own future but also to the body politic.
News that incessantly and unjustifiably labels political leaders as insincere and inept fosters mistrust on the part of the public, and makes it harder for those in authority to provide the leadership that is required if government is to work effectively.
The expertness produced by habit is remarkable, and it not infrequently happens that a single reporter, from the notes taken in three quarters of an hour, supplies from one to three columns of printed matter to the paper on which he is engaged.
www.morrock.com /newsdef.htm   (8463 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Outsiders can forget media recognition
The staff of the Miami Herald won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for its coverage of the raid that led to 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez being reunited with his father.
Then there's this one: The prize for investigative reporting was awarded to David Willman of the Los Angeles Times for his coverage of unsafe prescription drugs approved by the U.S. government.
If Pulitzer criteria were based a bit more on those kinds of standards rather than which liberal newspaper had the best liberal slant last year on a tired or well-worn subject, then perhaps some of our staffers would have won hands-down.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22483   (1426 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
Anyone who doubts Friedman deserved the prize should read this hilarious Arab News piece, published before the Pulitzer announcement, by one Wahib Binzagr, who says he was present at a meeting between the Timesman and "a number of Saudi intellectuals, businessmen and officials.
The New York Post's Andrea Peyser blasts the Pulitzer board for not giving the Breaking News Photography award to the Bergen (N.J.) Record for its photo of three firemen raising the American flag at ground zero.
As the NIH was releasing its study today, the Hartford Courant was reporting that Yale has become the fourth college to defy federal law by announcing it will reimburse students who lose their financial aid because of drug convictions.
www.opinionjournal.com /best?id=105001905   (2570 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain News: Local
In 2000, the newspaper won in breaking news photography for coverage of the tragedy at Columbine High.
The Pulitzers are the most coveted prizes in journalism, and winners are forever identified with the honor.
At 1:06, the prize for fiction, to Geraldine Brooks for March, was announced.
www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4629305,00.html   (1494 words)

  
 United Press International - Life & Mind - Analysis: Shame of Duranty's Pulitzer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Pulitzer Prize board is reviewing the award it gave to New York Times Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty more than 70 years ago for his shamefully -- and knowingly -- false coverage of the great Ukrainian famine.
Sig Gissler, administrator for the Pulitzer Prize board, told the Ukrainian Weekly that the "confidential review by the 18-member Pulitzer Prize board is intended to seriously consider all relevant information regarding Mr.
The Pulitzer Prize board's re-evaluation of Duranty's award therefore comes late in the day, to put it mildly, but it is still a welcome, indeed necessary gesture towards American journalistic integrity and to the hecatombs of dead whose cries were hushed.
www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20030602-065939-1967r   (1247 words)

  
 The Manila Times Internet Edition | TOP STORIES > Filipino American wins Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A FILIPINO AMERICAN news photographer brought credit to the Philippines when she won the Pulitzer Prize, the highest journalism honor of the United States.
Cheryl Diaz Meyer, a senior staff photographer of The Dallas Morning News, won the Pulitzer Prize for the breaking-news photography category for her gripping photograph of American troops risking their lives to save a wounded civilian.
Meyer’s most recent assignment was during the height of the US-Iraq war in March and photo journal reporting of that country after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/jun/02/yehey/top_stories/20040602top9.html   (510 words)

  
 Bio
Wilson, 51, is the first two-time winner of the Harvard University Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and has also won two George Polk Awards, for medical and local reporting, and a Loeb Award for business reporting, among more than 30 national and regional journalism awards.
He was three times a Pulitzer finalist, for Breaking News Reporting (2003 with staff), Investigative Reporting (2002 with David Heath) and Public Service (1998).
Wilson's reporting in 1996 on a record number of children dying under the care of state Child Protective Services led to reforms that will help prevent future child deaths.
www.reporter.org /desktop/rd/duffbio.htm   (1299 words)

  
 Marc Frucht wins Pulitzer for Flying Squirrel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
United States Resident George W Bush may have won under a cloud, but this pulitzer prize was had fair, square and the old fashioned way, according to Indymedia journalist, Marc Frucht.
The Pulitzer for feature photography went to Matt Rainey of The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., for his emotional photographs of the care and recovery of two students burned in a fire at Seton Hall University.
The Star-Ledger’s spot news coverage of the fire also was a finalist, and the paper’s Robin Gaby Fisher was a finalist in the feature writing category for stories on the students’ recovery.
flag.blackened.net /ati/pulitzer.html   (1052 words)

  
 Michelle Malkin: EYES ON THE PRIZES
New York Close Protection Services is the only firm specializing in the safety and accessibility of conservative speakers.
The Los Angeles Times has won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for public service for an investigation of a major public hospital.
Steve Coll has won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.
michellemalkin.com /archives/001995.htm   (508 words)

  
 P-I's Horsey wins second Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She was to have been in New York at a meeting but had told him she would return if he won a Pulitzer.
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded by Columbia University on recommendations of an 18-member board, which considers nominations from jurors in each category.
Horsey was a Pulitzer finalist in 1987 and received the National Press Foundation's 1998 Berryman Award for Cartoonist of the Year.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/116268_horsey07ww.shtml   (786 words)

  
 The Newsroom - The Oregonian Business Center
Meet The Oregonian's news team - dedicated professionals totally tuned in to keeping you up-to-date on the events and stories that matter most.
They also quietly win awards for outstanding journalism - including five Pulitzer Prizes in the past eight years; more than any other paper our size.
This is your newsroom, too, the place to share your news and ideas with us.
biz.oregonian.com /newsroom   (116 words)

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