"myopia"" and ""failure to appreciate new directions in playwriting"" for overlooking the three plays that were not running on Broadway at the time of the Award in favor of one that was. 2010 Pulitzer Prize The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday, April 12, 2010. In journalism, ""The Washington Post"" won four awards while ""The New York Times"" won three. For the first time, an online source, ""ProPublica"", won in what had previously been the sole province of print. A musical, ""Next to Normal"", won the Drama award for the first time in 14 years. Country singer-songwriter Hank Williams,"
"awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 for ""its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters. The Times sold PolitiFact.com to its parent company, the Poynter Institute, in 2018. Tampa Bay Times The Tampa Bay Times, previously named the St. Petersburg Times through 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It has won twelve Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single year"
"recognize achievements in literature, poetry, history, music, and drama. Joseph Pulitzer Joseph J. Pulitzer (; ; born József Pulitzer; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a newspaper publisher of the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch"" and the ""New York World"". He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his ""World"" and William Randolph Hearst's ""New York Journal"" caused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which"
"and is the most prestigious one for a newspaper to win. As with other Pulitzer Prizes, a committee of jurors narrows the field to three nominees, from which the Pulitzer Board generally picks a winner and finalists. Finalists have been made public since 1980. The Pulitzer Board issues an official citation explaining the reason for the award. In its first 97 years to 2013, the Public Service Pulitzer was awarded 96 times. There were four years for which no award was given, and two prizes were awarded in the years 1967, 1990, and 2006. In 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955 and"
"the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. The paper shared the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for public service coverage of Hurricane Katrina with ""The Sun Herald"" in similarly affected Biloxi, Mississippi. In addition, staff reporters Doug MacCash, Manuel Torres, Trymaine Lee, and Mark Schleifstein were awarded a Pulitzer for breaking news reporting. This award marked the first Pulitzer given for exclusively online journalism. For its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, ""The Times-Picayune"" also received the 2005 George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting. Former ""Times-Picayune"" editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich won the Pulitzer for his cartoons in ""The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"", some of which were also"
"and Clarence Page snagged the award for commentary. In 1994, Ron Kotulak won a Pulitzer for explanatory journalism, while R. Bruce Dold won it for editorial writing. In 1998, reporter Paul Salopek won a Pulitzer for explanatory writing, and in 1999, architecture critic Blair Kamin won it for criticism. In September 1981, baseball writer Jerome Holtzman was hired by the ""Tribune"" after a 38-year career at the ""Sun-Times"". In November 1982, ""Tribune"" managing editor William H. ""Bill"" Jones, who had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1971, died at age 43 of cardiac arrest as a result of complications from a"
"125 and five, respectively. The ""Press-Democrat"" won Breaking News Reporting, bringing its total to two prizes. The staff of ""The Arizona Republic"" and ""USA Today"" won for explanatory reporting; The ""Cincinnati Enquirer"" for local reporting about the heroin epidemic; and Reuters won international reporting. In letters, drama, and music, Kendrick Lamar's ""Damn"" won the music prize, the first non-classical and non-jazz work to win the award. No special citations were awarded this year. 2018 Pulitzer Prize The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2017 calendar year. Prize winners and nominated finalists were"
"The Press Democrat The Press Democrat, with the largest circulation in the California North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), is a daily newspaper published in Santa Rosa, California. The paper received the 2004 George Polk Award for Regional Reporting given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. Annie Wells of the ""Press Democrat"" won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography ""for her dramatic photograph of a local firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters."" The Press Democrat staff also won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for ""[f]or lucid"
"columnist John Archibald won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his columns about former governor Robert J. Bentley, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and corruption in state politics. The Birmingham News The Birmingham News is the principal newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and the largest newspaper in Alabama. The paper is owned by Advance Publications, and was a daily newspaper from its founding through September 30, 2012. The next day, the ""News"" and its two sister Alabama newspapers, the ""Press-Register"" in Mobile and ""The Huntsville Times"", moved to a thrice-weekly print-edition publication schedule (Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays). ""The"
"Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold"
"""""USA Today"" Network Wisconsin"". The ""Journal Sentinel"" also collaborates with the ""Press-Gazette"" for Packers coverage, and adapted to Gannett standards, including newspaper layout, website and apps, in August 2016. ""The Milwaukee Journal"" and the ""Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"" have received eight Pulitzer Prizes: In 1919, ""The Milwaukee Journal"" won the award for public service because of its stand against Germany in World War I. In 1934, cartoonist Ross A. Lewis won for his cartoon on labor-industry violence. In 1953, business desk reporter Austin C. Wehrwein won for international reporting with the series of stories ""Canada's New Century."" In 1966, the series"
"Joseph Pulitzer Joseph J. Pulitzer (; ; born József Pulitzer; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a newspaper publisher of the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch"" and the ""New York World"". He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his ""World"" and William Randolph Hearst's ""New York Journal"" caused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which won over readers with sensationalism, sex, crime and graphic"
"St. John won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for her series on Florida's insurance industry. This was the first Pulitzer in the ""Herald-Tribune""′s history, marking a ""sustained commitment to excellence"". On April 18, 2016, ""Herald-Tribune"" reporter Michael Braga won the newspaper's second Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for a series in partnership with the Tampa Bay Times called ""Insane. Invisible. In danger"" that detailed the horrific conditions in Florida’s mental health hospitals. The newspaper has been a winner or Pulitzer Prize finalist four times, its first nomination having been in 2008. On May 5, 2017, the newspaper won the"
"of purchasing the paper. In November 2017, the paper's Facebook page reverted its name back to Anchorage Daily News; the paper itself rebranded to Anchorage Daily News on November 18. The newspaper has won the Pulitzer Prize twice in the Public Service category, in 1976 and 1989. No other Alaska newspaper has ever won a Pulitzer. The 1976 Pulitzer was for its series ""Empire: The Alaska Teamsters Story,"" which disclosed the effect and influence of the Teamsters Union on the state's economy and politics. The Daily News was at that time the smallest daily newspaper ever to win the Public"
"Asbury Park Press The Asbury Park Press is a daily newspaper in Monmouth and Ocean counties of New Jersey and has the third largest circulation in the state. Its investigative staff, led by editor Paul D'Ambrosio, has been awarded numerous national honors in journalism, including the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, two the Associated Press Managing Editors' Award for Public Service, the National Headliner Award for Public Service and two National Headliner Awards for Best Series (large papers). The ""Press"" investigative team was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. The newspaper was also the home"
"The New York Times The New York Times (shortened as the ""Times and abbreviated as the ""NYT) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership. Founded in 1851, the paper has won 125 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper. The ""Times"" is ranked 17th in the world by circulation and 2nd in the U.S. The paper is owned by The New York Times Company, which is publicly traded and is controlled by the Sulzberger family through a dual-class share structure. It has been owned by the family since 1896; A.G. Sulzberger, the paper's"
"2017 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the ""Journal"" had a circulation of about 2.277million copies (including nearly 1,270,000 digital subscriptions) , compared with ""USA Today""s 1.7million. The newspaper, which has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes through 2017, derives its name from Wall Street in the heart of the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The ""Journal"" also publishes the luxury news and lifestyle magazine ""WSJ,"" which was originally launched as a quarterly but expanded to 12 issues as of 2014. An online version was launched in 1996, which has been accessible only to subscribers since it began. The first"
"first time a Pulitzer was awarded to a group of stories not published in print. In 2016, ProPublica won its third Pulitzer Prize, this time for Explanatory Reporting, in collaboration with The Marshall Project for ""a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims."" In 2017, ProPublica and the ""New York Daily News"" were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of reports on the use of eviction rules by the New York City Police Department. Their team of writers and"
"death. It was the first time a newspaper in New Hampshire was awarded the prize. The ""Monitor"" stood out as the smallest paper to win an award that year, with its circulation just a fraction of the next smallest, the ""Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"". While 2008 was the first year the ""Monitor"" or one of its staff won a Pulitzer, the paper has a number of alums who have been honored, including Jo Becker of ""The New York Times"" and Steven Pearlstein of ""The Washington Post,"" both of whom also won the award in 2008. In 1999, the ""Columbia Journalism Review"""
"Lou Kilzer Lou Kilzer (born 1951) is an investigative journalist and author and a two time Pulitzer Prize Winner. He began work as a journalist in 1973 after graduating ""cum laude"" in philosophy from Yale University, joining the Rocky Mountain News in December 1977. He covered police, courts and investigations. In 1983, he began a five-year stint on the investigations unit and city desk of the Denver Post, and then seven years on the investigative unit of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. In 1986, Kilzer and two other Denver Post reporters won for that newspaper a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for"
"horrors. The wide appeal reached a million copies a day and opened the way to mass-circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue (rather than cover price or political party subsidies) and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news, gossip, entertainment and advertising. Today, his name is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes, which were established in 1917 as a result of his endowment to Columbia University. The prizes are given annually to recognize and reward excellence in American journalism, photography, literature, history, poetry, music and drama. Pulitzer founded the Columbia School of Journalism by his philanthropic bequest; it opened"
"addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Carollo has won numerous other national awards, including Harvard University’s Goldsmith Award, two White House Correspondent’s Association awards, and six Investigative Reporters and Editors awards. Three awards were personally presented to him by U.S. presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Gerald Ford. Russell Carollo Russell Carollo (born 1955) is an American journalist who has worked as an investigative reporter for the ""Dayton Daily News"", the ""Los Angeles Times"", and ""The Sacramento Bee"". He won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting at the ""Dayton Daily News"" for uncovering mismanagement in military healthcare. During his"
"newspaper that is distributed in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1877 making it the oldest newspaper extant. It is most notable for exposing the Watergate scandal. In 2008, the newspaper won six separate Pulitzers Prices; in total, it has won 47 Pulitzer Prices. ""The Washington Post"" also has a daily free newspaper called the ""Express"", which summarizes events, sports, and entertainment. Other notable newspapers include the ""Washington Times"", a daily newspaper that focuses mostly on American politics, and the ""Washington City Paper"", a daily newspaper that serves the Washington, D.C. area. On February 1, 2005, the free daily tabloid"
"Pulitzer, Inc. Pulitzer Inc. owned newspapers, television stations and radio stations across the United States. Founded by Joseph Pulitzer (who also funded the Pulitzer Prizes, which are not affiliated with the company), its papers included the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch,"" the ""Arizona Daily Star"" (Tucson), and Chicago's ""Daily Southtown"" and Lerner Newspapers chain. Pulitzer Inc., which published 14 daily newspapers at the time, was sold to Lee Enterprises for $1.5 billion in 2005 (with both Gannett and the E. W. Scripps Company expressing interest in buying the company prior to Lee's acquisition). Pulitzer had previously acquired Scripps League's 16 daily and"
"Roy J. Harris Jr. Roy J. Harris Jr. (born October 2, 1946) is a reporter and editor who spent most of his career with ""The Wall Street Journal"". He writes frequently about the journalism Pulitzer Prizes, and is the author of ""Pulitzer’s Gold"", a book telling the back stories of 100 years of reporting that has won the United States' top journalism prize, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. A regular contributor to the Poynter Institute's website, he does an annual preview prior to the day the Pulitzer Prizes are announced. Harris was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son"
"30 non-daily publications in 1996. In 1998, Pulitzer sold its broadcast group — nine television stations and five radio stations — to Hearst-Argyle. Pulitzer, Inc. Pulitzer Inc. owned newspapers, television stations and radio stations across the United States. Founded by Joseph Pulitzer (who also funded the Pulitzer Prizes, which are not affiliated with the company), its papers included the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch,"" the ""Arizona Daily Star"" (Tucson), and Chicago's ""Daily Southtown"" and Lerner Newspapers chain. Pulitzer Inc., which published 14 daily newspapers at the time, was sold to Lee Enterprises for $1.5 billion in 2005 (with both Gannett and the"
"the Prize. It allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships. He specified ""four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships."" After his death, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4, 1917; they are now announced each April. The ""Chicago Tribune"" under the control of Colonel McCormick felt that the Pulitzer Prize was nothing more than a 'mutual admiration society' and not to be taken seriously; the paper refused to compete for the prize during McCormick's tenure up until 1961. Many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. Nelson Harding, Stanley"
"1959, prizes were awarded to two newspapers. A reporter (rather than a publication) was first named in 1947; recently that has been more common and as many as three reporters have been named. Pulitzer Prize for Public Service The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalistic resources, which may include editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics, video and other online material, and may be presented in print or online or both."
"the globe. The projects incorporate blog posts, multimedia reporting, and multiple pieces that run in major mainstream news outlets such as the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Financial Times, PBS Newshour, Seattle Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times"" and the ""Los Angeles Times"". The Pulitzer Center treats the reporting projects as full-blown campaigns, designed to create maximum exposure for the reporting. This entails promoting the projects through social media, partnerships with other websites and organizations, and lectures by the journalists themselves at universities and schools. Pulitzer Center-funded projects have won nearly every journalism award available including from Associated"
"Hub Tax Credit from the State of New Jersey. The ""Daily News"" has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes over its history. In 1998, ""Daily News"" columnist Mike McAlary won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his multi-part series of columns (published in 1997) on Abner Louima, who was sodomized and tortured by New York City police officers. In 2007, the ""News"" won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of thirteen editorials, published over five months, that detailed how more than 12,000 rescue workers who responded after the September 11 attacks and become ill from toxins in the air."
"69 editors, 69 copy editors, 29 photographers, five graphic artists (not including page designers), 11 columnists, sixteen critics, 48 editorial specialists, and 18 news assistants. The newspaper has been awarded 22 Pulitzer Prizes since beginning publication in 1903. Well-known columnists include Pulitzer-winning political commentator Leonard Pitts, Jr., Pulitzer-winning reporter Mirta Ojito, humorist Dave Barry and novelist Carl Hiaasen. Other columnists include Fred Grimm and sportswriters Edwin Pope, Dan Le Batard and Greg Cote. Alexandra Villoch is the publisher, and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez is the executive editor. The newspaper averages 88 pages daily and 212 pages on Sundays. The ""Miami Herald""s"
"Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times (sometimes abbreviated as LA Times or L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It has the fourth-largest circulation among United States newspapers, and is the largest U.S. newspaper not headquartered on the east coast. The paper is known for its coverage of issues particularly salient to the U.S. west coast, such as immigration trends and natural disasters. It has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of these and other issues. , ownership of the paper is controlled by Patrick Soon-Shiong, and"
"Washington Daily News The Washington Daily News is a daily newspaper serving Washington, North Carolina. It is the smallest daily newspaper to ever win a Pulitzer Prize gold medal. The paper won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles that showed the city's water was contaminated and had been for eight years. The newspaper was then family-owned. It had a circulation of 8,736 Monday through Saturday and 8,969 on Sunday as of Sept. 30, 2007, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The newspaper has been owned and published by the Futrell family since 1949."