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  Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (1167 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(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.
(1890-1971) received the Pulitzer Prize in Biography twice: in 1933 for Grover Cleveland and in 1937 for Hamilton Fish.
(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)

  
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In 1992, after six months on the job, she was selected as one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, for her columns on Cuban-Americans in Miami.
In 1993, she won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for columns on Cuban-American issues and a series out of Haiti during the repressive de facto regime that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
She was awarded first prize in commentary by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors in 1993 and 1994.
www.poynterextra.org /pointssouth/2001/faculty/balmaseda/more.htm   (997 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary has been awarded since 1970.
1975: Mary McGrory, Washington Star, for her commentary on public affairs during 1974.
1993: Liz Balmaseda, Miami Herald, for her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Commentary   (580 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize-winning professor at HU | Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications | Hampton University
Leonard Pitts, Jr., who was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for the column he writes for the Miami Herald, will speak in the Robert P. Scripps Auditorium in the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at 7 p.m., Monday, April 12.
He won the top prize for commentary at the Scripps Howard Foundation’s National Journalism Awards in 2002.
Pitts was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
www.hamptonu.edu /shsjc/news/Caldwell_Cafe100.htm   (337 words)

  
 Halberstam to headline Pulitzer Prize panel March 22 in Charleston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Balmesada won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1993 for columns on Cuban-American and Haitian issues.
French was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Angels and Demons, a project that chronicled a mother and her two daughters who were murdered when they came to Tampa Bay on vacation from their dairy farm in northwestern Ohio.
Wimmer captured a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 while at the Orange County (Calif.) Register as part of an investigative team that exposed theft and fraud at the University of California Irvine’s fertility clinic.
www.nis.wvu.edu /releases/Pul.htm   (685 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. They have been awarded each May since 1917 on the recommendation of an advisory board comprising journalists, the president of the university, with the dean of the graduate school of journalism as secretary.
The prizes in letters, of $5,000 each, are for fiction, nonfiction, drama, history, biography, and poetry; works with American themes are preferred.
Pulitzer directed that the winners "study social, political, and moral conditions of the people and the character and principles of the foreign press."
www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/pultzrp1r.asp   (1193 words)

  
 Maureen Dowd, Tart-tongued New York Times columnist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dowd received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1999, with the Pulitzer committee particularly citing her columns on the impeachment of Bill Clinton after his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
At the Times she was nominated for a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, then became a columnist for the paper's editorial page in 1995.
She dissected the scandal, its participants and its meaning with style as well as insight, with a faultless instinct for hypocrisy in high places, and with a genius for seeing what the political spin was saying about the spinners themselves.
favefolks.com /m/Maureen-Dowd.asp   (948 words)

  
 Releases :: Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Thomas L. Friedman at Moravian – October 2
A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, his column for the New York Times take an authoritative approach to complex global issues.
He won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary (his third Pulitzer for The New York Times).
In awarding him his third Pulitzer Prize (the 2002 award for Distinguished Commentary), the Pulitzer Board cited his “clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat.”
www.moravian.edu /news/releases/2003/089.htm   (789 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize Article, PulitzerPrize Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Pulitzer Prize is a United States literary awardgiven out each April.
Theprize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-Americanjournalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalismas selected by the faculty.
www.anoca.org /reporting/distinguished/pulitzer_prize.html   (555 words)

  
 Power Line: The Pulitzer Prize for felony murder...
Among the photographs for which the Associated Press was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography is this one that we explored at length in "AP admits relationship with terrorists." At the time of the photograph's original publication, Rocket Man wrote:
The columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary including one on "how managers at a restaurant were taking money from the tip jar at the coat check" will probably not be the next Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post) or Jack Kelly (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) or columnist extraordinaire Mark Steyn (Chicago Sun-Times et al.).
Michelle Malkin has a post with a complete collection of links: "Controversy over Pulizer-winning photos." The Pulitzer Prize awarded to the Associated Press for work based on complicity with murderers and enemies of the United States at war is a disgrace.
powerlineblog.com /archives/010066.php   (1098 words)

  
 Black Issues in Higher Education: A prize writer: Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King's straight-talking ways ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
King chuckles when asked if this is what the Pulitzer jury meant by speaking to people in power "with ferocity and wisdom," noting that he came by the trait honestly.
The first Pulitzer prizes were awarded in 1917, named after Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Pulitzer's 1904 will made provision for the establishment of the Pulitzer prizes as an incentive to excellence.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_12_20/ai_106422270   (1285 words)

  
 Two Barnard alumnae win Pulitzer Prizes — one to speak at College Wednesday evening
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Barnard alumna Jhumpa Lahiri ’89; Katherine Boo ’88 cited in public service award to The Washington Post
April 11, 2000, NEW YORK, N.Y. — Barnard alumna Jhumpa Lahiri ’89 — who speaks on campus Wednesday, April 12 — has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, while a second Barnard alumna, Katherine Boo ’88, was cited for her work in a series in The Washington Post.
Lahiri won the Prize for fiction for her book Interpreter of Maladies, a book of short stories that has won wide acclaim.
www.barnard.edu /newnews/news41100a.htm   (239 words)

  
 No Justice, No Pulitzer -- 04/18/2001
This year's Pulitzer Prizes were announced the other day and Mullings missed out again.
* Dorothy Rabinowitz of The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, and the Pulitzer Prize for criticism was given to Gail Caldwell of The Boston Globe.
if the Pulitzer Committee is reading) had not risen to the occasion as they did, then the end of the Civil War might well have marked the beginning of a centuries- long conflict of the type we still see in the Balkans and Northern Ireland.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewCommentary.asp?Try=No&Page=\Commentary\archive\200104\COM20010418c.html   (696 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize winners to headline media law seminar
Paul Gigot, Wall Street Journal columnist and 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, will be the luncheon speaker.
George Dohrmann, a 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for beat reporting, is a writer for Sports Illustrated.
Paul Pioneer Press, Dohrmann received the Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
www.news.ku.edu /2001/01N/FebNews/Feb8/medialaw.html   (411 words)

  
 Ohio columnist wins Pulitzer Prize, partly for commentary on gay issues | News | Advocate.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A columnist for The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary on Monday, giving the newspaper its second Pulitzer and first in more than 50 years.
Schultz, 47, said she was humbled by the award--journalism's highest honor--having been a columnist for only two years.
Schultz two years ago was named a finalist for the feature writing prize for a series she wrote on a man wrongly convicted of rape.
www.advocate.com /news_detail.asp?id=15269   (298 words)

  
 Barnard College Newscenter
Anna Quindlen, the Newsweek columnist, best-selling author, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, will give the 2005 commencement speech at Barnard, her alma mater, on Tuesday afternoon, May 17.
Throughout a career that has made her one of the most widely admired writers in the country, Quindlen has played an active role as a Barnard alumna for the past two decades.
She won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1992 as a columnist for The New York Times.
www.barnard.edu /newnews/news050205.html   (455 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Mary McGrory
Mary McGrory, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, died on April 21.
The Boston native graduated with a bachelor's degree from Emmanuel College and began her career in journalism as a secretary to the book editor of The Boston Herald.
Her first stab at national commentary came in 1954 when she was assigned to cover the Army-McCarthy hearings.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000920.html   (362 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Extra
The articles that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.
Rabinowitz is known to OpinionJournal readers for her "Media Log," as well as her longer features drawn from the pages of the Journal.
Pulitzer Prize administrator Seymour Topping told the Associated Press yesterday that the Pulitzer board, which makes the final decisions, reviewed the jury's original three finalists and decided it wanted "a broader choice." The jury offered Ms.
www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=90000451   (327 words)

  
 Yale Nursing-News and Events Press Releases Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best selling author speaks at YSN ...
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best selling author speaks at YSN about women's role in health care
Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best selling author was be the featured speaker at the 2003 Yale School of Nursing Bellos Lecture.
In 1992 Anna won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
nursing.yale.edu /News/Press/press.php?story=16   (455 words)

  
 Distinguished Speaker Series: Rudy Giuliani, Shimon Peres, Frank Abangnale and many more.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, he has written 21 books and best-sellers, including: Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys and Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway, and his latest Tricky Business.
His writing was the basis of the CBS popular sitcom, "Dave's World." With a keen eye for the absurd, Barry brings his hilarious sense of humor to audiences, offering up his wacky points of view on politics, human nature, work, technology and the other oddities of life.
In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, pending a recount.
www.speakersla.com /barry.html   (519 words)

  
 Key Speakers Bureau Inc.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, he is also the best-selling author of 23 books, including Babies and Other Hazards of Sex , Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States , Dave Barry is from Mars AND Venus , and his latest, Big Trouble .
Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom "Dave's World," in which Harry Anderson played a much taller version of Dave.
In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
www.keyspeakers.com /bio.php?id=212   (245 words)

  
 Longitudes and Attitudes, by Thomas Friedman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
contains the Pulitzer Prize winning columns Friedman has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his experiences and reactions during this period of crisis.
As the author writes, the book is "not meant to be a comprehensive study of September 11 and all the factors that went into it.
Thomas L Friedman has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his newspaper reporting.
www.fsgbooks.com /fsg/longitudesandattitudes.htm   (420 words)

  
 DrudgeReportArchives.com © 2006
The New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for the work of David Barstow and Lowell Bergman examining death and injury among American workers.
_ Pulitzer Prize for commentary: Leonard Pitts Jr.
_ Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning: Matt Davies of The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y. _ Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography: David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer of The Dallas Morning News.
www.drudgereportarchives.com /data/2004/04/05/20040405_192607_flash2.htm   (314 words)

  
 The Washington Post: Opinion Page Columnists
Charles Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1987.
William Raspberry, a Post columnist since 1966, won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1994.
Editorial cartoonist Tom Toles, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 when he worked at the Buffalo (N.Y.) News, came to The Post in April 2002.
washpost.com /news_ed/editorial/opinion.shtml   (342 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize-winner is Commencement speaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Raspberry's name was among those frequently mentioned by students in a poll of potential Commencement speakers conducted last fall by his office, Davis said.
Once called the "Lone Ranger of Columnists" by a colleague, Raspberry is known for his independence of mind and his enlightened commentary on social and political issues.
In 1994, he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his writing on crime, AIDS, the Nation of Islam and violent rap lyrics.
www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/98/23/pulitzer.html   (339 words)

  
 E.R. Shipp Wins '96 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert Campbell, a 1960 graduate of the Journalism School and architecture critic for The Boston Globe, won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
The 80th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Tues., Apr. 9.
They are awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board and announced by President Rupp.
columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss24/record2124.14.html   (709 words)

  
 Chronicle Wins Pulitzer for Feature Photography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Deanne Fitzmaurice won journalism's top prize for her photos covering the courageous story of a maimed Iraqi boy named Saleh whose plight inspired an international rescue effort.
The Associated Press has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
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."
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/04/04/national/a120451D38.DTL&type=printable   (373 words)

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