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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   (1213 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize
The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
For a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear presentation.
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.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pu/Pulitzer.html   (460 words)

  
 Organization of News Ombudsmen
Under her leadership, the newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting in 1985.
Since 1994 she has been a member of the Pulitzer Prize board, a member of the advisory boards of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies; the Freedom Forum Pacific Coast Center in San Francisco; the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland; and the national YMCA.
Having an independent voice -- a person who isn't working on the daily news report but who understands how newsrooms work -- is a powerful way to tell readers that you are concerned about their complaints and will work to resolve them, even if it's painful to editors and reporters.
www.newsombudsmen.org /rowe.html   (3166 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting has been awarded, since 1953 for a distinguished example of local reporting on news of the moment.
Prior to 1953, a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting combined both breaking and investigative reporting under one category.
2005: Staff of the Star-Ledger, for its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey’s governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_News_Reporting   (664 words)

  
 November/December 2001
From there, she went to The Ledger-Star, an afternoon paper in Norfolk, as a reporter in the now defunct "women's department." She worked her way up to become the managing editor of the paper, ushered it through a merger with The Virginian-Pilot, and then became the executive editor in 1983.
Washington was soon buzzing with rumors about a new star witness in the Jones case: Monica Lewinsky, a young woman with whom Clinton had had an affair.
But the new prurience of the "established" media also had much to do with the changing economic, institutional, and cultural structures of the media business itself.
archives.cjr.org /year/01/6/1998.asp   (809 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Oregonian Editor Sandra Mims Rowe Elected Pulitzer Board Chair
On her watch, the papers won the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting in 1985.
As newly elected chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Rowe succeeds John S. Carroll, editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times and vice president of Times Mirror, who will continue to serve as a board member.
The 2003 Pulitzer Prizes will be announced on April 7 and presented on May 29 at Columbia University.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/02/11/sandraMRowe_pulitzer_chair.html   (342 words)

  
 New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Hale 1998 Oct-Dec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In dreams, both awake and sleeping, Miami News reporter Britt Montero relives a shooting in which she was forced to kill a man.
A theft from his tower house brings an attractive woman detective inspector into his life and she is more deeply involved when there really is a murder and the corpse is left close to his doorstep.
A new housing development scheme is under way and the villages of Wimcot and Oxton are in an uproar over the proposed changes.
www.twbooks.co.uk /crimedigests/digests98/halewi980.html   (1162 words)

  
 ABC News: Geraldine Brooks' 'March' Wins Pulitzer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
NEW YORK Apr 17, 2006 (AP)— "March," Geraldine Brooks' novel that imagines the life of the fictional father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday.
The prize for general nonfiction went to Caroline Elkins for "Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya." David M. Oshinsky was awarded the history prize for "Polio: An American Story."
A finalist for the biography prize was Joan Didion, whose best-selling memoir, "The Year of Magical Thinking," about the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, won a National Book Award last fall.
abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=1851769   (434 words)

  
 Sandra Mims Rowe, editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Oregonian, to speak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Under Rowe’s leadership, The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in the Northwest, won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 1999, the newspaper’s first Pulitzer since 1957.
The newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting in 1985.
Rowe is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, chair of the Knight Foundation Journalism Advisory Board and a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
www.unc.edu /news/archives/oct01/rowe102501.htm   (376 words)

  
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He was one of six reporters at the San Jose Mercury News to win a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting for a series of stories on the collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct during northern California's 1989 earthquake.
That Webb won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team reporting on the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake is another salient fact that hasn't been mentioned in many of the obituaries being published in newspapers across the country.
The end result was a long apology by The Mercury News; the banishment of Webb to a minor beureau 150 miles from headquarters, where he covered the death of a police horse; and his eventual resignation from the newspaper.
www.sevenstories.com /onix/?isbn=1888363932   (1746 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
(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)

  
 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.
Anne Applebaum won in general nonfiction for "Gulag: A History," and Franz Wright's "Walking to Martha's Vineyard" captured the prize for poetry.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/04/06/los_angeles_times_wins_5_pulitzer_prizes   (792 words)

  
 NEWSMAKINGNEWS
He was one of six reporters at the San Jose Mercury News to win a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting for a series of stories on Northern California's 1989 earthquake.
The New York Times hailed Ceppos for setting a brave new standard for dealing with "egregious errors" and splashed his apology on their front page, the first time the series had ever been mentioned there.
Second, the San Jose Mercury News was not a member of the club that sets the national news agenda, the elite group of big newspapers that decides the important issues of the day, such as big newspapers that decides the important issues of the day, such as which stories get reported and which get ignored.
www.newsmakingnews.com /vm,garywebb,12,014,04intothebuzzsaw.htm   (5912 words)

  
 The 2006 Freedom of Information Summit - This Years' Speakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Frank Bass is a multimedia investigations reporter for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. He joined the AP in 1997 as director of computer-assisted reporting and is the author of The Associated Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting.
Sig Christenson is a senior reporter and military writer for the San Antonio Express-News and president and co-founder of Military Reporters and Editors.
In that role he serves as chief news counsel for CNN Worldwide, where he is responsible for the management and oversight of all editorial legal work for CNN and management of the team of media lawyers who support CNN's networks worldwide.
www.indianacog.org /foi2006/speakers.html   (4667 words)

  
 The Pulitzer Prizes for 1989
For reporting about the high incidence of alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans in a series that focused attention on their despair and resulted in various reforms.
For its exemplary initial coverage of a bus crash that claimed 27 lives and its subsequent thorough and effective examination of the causes and implications of the tragedy.
For their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety.
www.pulitzer.org /cyear/1989w.html   (368 words)

  
 Power Line: April 2005 Archives
Maybe I'm the only one who missed it, but CBS News aired a report Thursday evening, discussed here by AFP, that the fatal encounter between the vehicle taking Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to the Baghdad airport and American soldiers at a highway checkpoint was recorded by a satellite.
See also the report of St. Thomas law student Karin Moore, who attended the event and posted her observations on the Fraters Libertas site, and the report of Douglas, who posted a detailed account of the question-and-answer exchanges at Belief Seeking Understanding.
A new development, also, in the strange case of Melody Townsel, another anti-Bush activist who has come out of the woodwork to attack Bolton with a weird story about him chasing her down the corridor of a hotel in Russia because he was angry at her.
powerlineblog.com /archives/2005_04.php   (17451 words)

  
 Coverage of Katrina, scandals win Pulitzers
New Orleans residents wait to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina in Sept. 2005.
The Times-Picayune also won for its breaking news reportage during the crisis, while the staff of the Dallas Morning News was honoured in the breaking news photography category for vivid images in the hurricane's aftermath.
National reporting: The staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Copley News Service, for coverage of the bribe-taking scandal of former representative Randy Cunningham.
www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2006/04/17/pulitzer-winners.html   (1812 words)

  
 Texas Almanac 2006-2007 | TexasAlmanac.com | Media
Joseph Pulitzer, a reporter, editor and publisher, established his namesake system of prizes in 1917.
The Pulitzer Prize Web site has complete lists of Pulitzer Prize winners by year of award.
New Orleans residents make their way to the Superdome through floodwater from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
www.texasalmanac.com /media   (844 words)

  
 Untitled Document
David Yarnold, 46, is responsible for all news coverage and the operation of the second largest newsroom on the West Coast.
In 1998 Detrich was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature photography for a five part series "Children of the Underground." Which was an in-depth look at a covert underground organization that hides sexually abused children.
Keith Meyers, on staff at the New York Times for 20 years, is a general assignment photographer who is assisting Technical Photo Editor David Frank in the development of a workflow for digital images and training photographers during the digital transition at the paper.
www.visualedge.org /1999/bios.htm   (5422 words)

  
 Poynter Online - Forums
It is now generally agreed among business writers and Wall Street analysts that the $8.3 billion Tribune paid for the Times Mirror papers was hugely over-valued, by perhaps as much as $1 billion.
In their published reports, business writers and stock analysts who follow Tribune have consistently insisted that operating margins at the local papers are in the 20 percent range.
Eichenwald was a writer-researcher for CBS News in the Election and Survey Unit and the associate editor of The National Journal in Washington.
poynter.org /forum/?id=misc   (9045 words)

  
 Hutton House Lectures
For eighteenth-century New Yorkers, the far-flung cosmos and the local natural world of plants and animals were intimately connected.
We’ll look at the information about the skies conveyed to New Yorkers in their almanacs, among the most common of reading matter in the colonial period, and consider the relationship between astronomy and astrology.
She wrote the most extensive flora of New York plants produced in the colonial period, had one of her plant descriptions published in a European learned journal, and corresponded with botanists across the Atlantic.
www.cwpost.liunet.edu /cwis/cwp/conted/hutton/courses.html   (3498 words)

  
 2006 Pulitzer Prize winners - Boston.com
PUBLIC SERVICE -- Two Prizes: The Sun Herald of South Mississippi and The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING -- Staff of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
NATIONAL REPORTING -- Two Prizes: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times and the staffs of The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/04/17/2006_pulitzer_prize_winners   (326 words)

  
 Sandra Mims Rowe Biography
Under her leadership, the newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 1999, the newspaper's first Pulitzer since 1957.
The newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting in l985.
Since 1994 she has been a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
www.wclathan.com /biographies/lathan/sandra_mims_rowe.htm   (361 words)

  
 The Pulitzer Prizes for 2006
For their in-depth reports on the federal government’s widespread mismanagement of hurricane aid, triggering indictments and other remedial action.
For his well crafted reports on restive Muslims in Europe that foretold riots in France.
For her intimate and compelling story about a federal judge whose husband and mother were murdered by an angry former plaintiff.
www.pulitzer.org /cyear/2006f.html   (726 words)

  
 The News-Press: Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
To reflect this new emphasis on engaging readers, we have renamed David's position as Community Conversation Editor.
He previously was a reporter in the Bonita Springs bureau and in the home office, covering public safety, health and education.
Their reporting revealed a furlough program that allowed a convicted murderer, William R. Horton Jr., to terrorize a couple while he was on a weekend release.
www.news-press.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060528/OPINION/605280420/1015   (694 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes: General News Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize, The Detroit News and Us.
So what?: Pulitzer Prize-winning exposes and their sometimes dubious consequences.
Miller brouhaha: the New York Times' Judith Miller has been pummelled unmercifully for her reporting on the search for weapons of......
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0105803.html   (148 words)

  
 Beacon Journal | 04/26/2006 | 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It was a costly payoff, forcing the sale of Goodyear Aerospace and the Celeron subsidiaries and the immediate loss of more than 600 jobs.
After two months of reporting the daily events, the Beacon Journal in nine days turned around a 10-chapter project titled ``The Goodyear War'' recounting the ordeal.
In addition, the newspaper challenged readers to sign a pledge to do everything they could to improve race relations in the next year.
www.ohio.com /mld/ohio/news/14415187.htm   (590 words)

  
 NBC: CIA officer fired after leak - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com
Intelligence sources tell NBC News the accused officer, Mary McCarthy, worked in the CIA's inspector general's office and had worked for the National Security Council under the Clinton and and George W. Bush administrations.
The information was allegedly provided to Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who wrote about CIA prisons in November and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for her reporting.
Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau won a Pulitzer on Monday for their reporting on the issue.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12423825   (551 words)

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