Pulitzer on the Road at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California The Pulitzer Prizes 2026-09-19 | Pulitzer on the Road at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California
2023 Pulitzer Prize Announcement The Pulitzer Prizes 2023-05-08 | The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music will be announced via livestream at Pulitzer.org on Monday, May 8 at 3 p.m. Eastern Time.For more information on this year's and all past years' winners and finalists, please visit http://www.pulitzer.org.
2022 Pulitzer Prize Announcement The Pulitzer Prizes 2022-05-09 | The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music will be announced via video stream at Pulitzer.org. in New York, N.Y. on Monday, May 9th, 2022 at 3pm.This announcement marks the 106th year of the Prizes. For more information on this year's and all past years' winners and finalists, please visit http://www.Pulitzer.org .
2021 Pulitzer Prize Announcement The Pulitzer Prizes 2021-06-11 | The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music will be announced via video stream at Pulitzer.org. in New York, N.Y. on Friday June 11th 2021 at 1pm.This announcement marks the 105th year of the Prizes. For more information on this year's and all past years' winners and finalists, please visit http://www.Pulitzer.org .
2018 Pulitzer Prize Luncheon The Pulitzer Prizes 2020-09-15 | The complete Pulitzer Prize awards ceremony and luncheon, held on May 30, 2018.
Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy Rings NYSE Opening Bell in Honor of the 2020 Prize Winners The Pulitzer Prizes 2020-05-28 | In celebration of the 104th class of Pulitzer Prize winners, watch Canedy virtually ring the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy Speaks With Columbia Journalism School Students The Pulitzer Prizes 2020-05-14 | Following the announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer finalists and winners, Prize Administrator Dana Canedy spoke with students from Columbia Journalism School about the prize process and the current class of winners. Watch the Q&A session here.
2020 Pulitzer Prize Announcement The Pulitzer Prizes 2020-05-04 | Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy announces the winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes in New York, N.Y. on Monday, May 4, 2020 This announcement marks the 104th year of the Prizes. For more information on this year's and all past years' winners and finalists, please visit http://www.Pulitzer.org .
Rita Dove: The Ambassador The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-09-05 | In an excerpt from a 2016 interview with Pulitzer Prize Deputy Administrator Bud Kliment, 1987 Poetry winner Rita Dove discusses the impact of her award and her literary outreach. Dove received the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement (carrying a $100,000 stipend and named after the 1955 Poetry winner) from the Academy of American Poets on September 5, 2019. Read more here: poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2019/09/rita-dove-honored-with-2019-wallace-stevens-award.
2019 Pulitzer Prize Luncheon The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-06-06 | The complete Pulitzer Prize awards ceremony and luncheon, held on May 28, 2019.
2019 Pulitzer Prize Luncheon: Jennifer Hudsons Amazing Grace The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-05-29 | Jennifer Hudson performed "Amazing Grace" in tribute to posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner Aretha Franklin at the program's annual awards luncheon on May 28, 2019.
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Ellen Reid received the 2019 Music Prize for ‘p r i s m,’ “a bold new operatic work that uses sophisticated vocal writing and striking instrumental timbres to confront difficult subject matter: the effects of sexual and emotional abuse. Libretto by Roxie Perkins.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | The Capital Gazette, Annapolis, Md., received the first Special Citation in journalism since 1996 “for their courageous response to the largest killing of journalists in U.S. history in their newsroom on June 28, 2018, and for demonstrating unflagging commitment to covering the news and serving their community at a time of unspeakable grief.” The citation comes with a $100,000 bequest by the Pulitzer Board to be used to further the newspaper’s journalistic mission.
2019 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Aretha Franklin received a posthumous Special Citation (the first in arts since 2010) “for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Eliza Griswold received the 2019 General Nonfiction Prize for ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ “a classic American story, grippingly told, of an Appalachian family struggling to retain its middle class status in the shadow of destruction wreaked by corporate fracking.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for History The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | David W. Blight received the 2019 History Prize for ‘Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,’ “a breathtaking history that demonstrates the scope of Frederick Douglass’ influence through deep research on his writings, his intellectual evolution and his relationships.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Forrest Gander received the 2019 Poetry Prize for ‘Be With,’ “a collection of elegies that grapple with sudden loss, and the difficulties of expressing grief and yearning for the departed.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Jeffrey C. Stewart received the 2019 Biography Prize for ‘The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke,’ “a panoramic view of the personal trials and artistic triumphs of the father of the Harlem Renaissance and the movement he inspired.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Jackie Sibblies Drury received the 2019 Drama Prize for ‘Fairview,’ “a hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Richard Powers received the 2019 Fiction Prize for ‘The Overstory,’ “an ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post received the 2019 Feature Photography Prize “for brilliant photo storytelling of the tragic famine in Yemen, shown through images in which beauty and composure are intertwined with devastation.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Brent Staples of The New York Times received the 2019 Editorial Writing Prize “for editorials written with extraordinary moral clarity that charted the racial fault lines in the United States at a polarizing moment in the nation’s history.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Syndicated cartoonist Darrin Bell received the 2019 Editorial Cartooning Prize “for beautiful and daring editorial cartoons that took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize Breaking News Photography The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | The photography staff of Reuters received the 2019 Breaking News Photography Prize “for a vivid and startling visual narrative of the urgency, desperation and sadness of migrants as they journeyed to the U.S. from Central and South America.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post received the 2019 Criticism Prize “for trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch received the 2019 Commentary Prize “for bold columns that exposed the malfeasance and injustice of forcing poor rural Missourians charged with misdemeanor crimes to pay unaffordable fines or be sent to jail.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2) The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | The staff of Reuters received a 2019 International Reporting Prize “for expertly exposing the military units and Buddhist villagers responsible for the systematic expulsion and murder of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, courageous coverage that landed its reporters in prison.” The “notable contributions” of imprisoned journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were singled out in the citation.
2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1) The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty of Associated Press received a 2019 International Reporting Prize “for a revelatory yearlong series detailing the atrocities of the war in Yemen, including theft of food aid, deployment of child soldiers and torture of prisoners.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Hannah Dreier of ProPublica received the 2019 Feature Writing Prize “for a series of powerful, intimate narratives that followed Salvadoran immigrants on New York’s Long Island whose lives were shattered by a botched federal crackdown on the international criminal gang MS-13.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize National Reporting The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | The staff of The Wall Street Journal received the 2019 National Reporting Prize “for uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times received the 2019 Investigative Reporting Prize “for consequential reporting on a University of Southern California gynecologist accused of violating hundreds of young women for more than a quarter-century.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | The staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La. received the 2019 Local Reporting Prize “for a damning portrayal of the state’s discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused’s guilt.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | The staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette received the 2019 Breaking News Reporting Prize “for immersive, compassionate coverage of the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue that captured the anguish and resilience of a community thrust into grief.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize Explanatory Reporting The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times received the 2019 Explanatory Reporting Prize “for an exhaustive 18-month investigation of President Donald Trump’s finances that debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | The South Florida Sun Sentinel received the 2019 Public Service Prize “for exposing failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the deadly shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.”
2019 Pulitzer Prize Announcement The Pulitzer Prizes 2019-04-15 | Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy will announce the winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. on Monday, April 15, 2019 at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This announcement marks the 103rd year of the Prizes.For more information on this year's and all past years' winners and finalists, please visit http://www.Pulitzer.org.
2018 Pulitzer Prize Ceremony: Ryan Kelly The Pulitzer Prizes 2018-06-04 | Following the Pulitzer Prize luncheon, 2018 Breaking News Photography winner Ryan Kelly spoke to Sree Sreenivasan about his epochal image and the future.
2018 Pulitzer Prize Ceremony: Kendrick Lamar The Pulitzer Prizes 2018-06-04 | Kendrick Lamar posed for a selfie with CNN's Don Lemon before answering a question from our team.
2018 Pulitzer Prize announcement The Pulitzer Prizes 2018-04-16 | Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy will announce the winners of the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in the World Room at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. on April 16, 2018 at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This announcement marks the 102nd year of the Prizes.For more information on this year's and all past years' winners and finalists, please visit http://www.Pulitzer.org.
2016 Pulitzer Prize Seminar The Pulitzer Prizes 2017-10-17 | 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners: Exposing injustices around the world. Journalists reporting from Southeast Asia, Afghanistan and the Mediterranean won 2016 Pulitzer Prizes. In "Seafood from Slaves," the Associated Press found fishermen shackled to their trade — leading to the release of 2,000 enslaved people. In her pieces, Alissa Rubin of The New York Times gave voice to Afghan women forced to endure unspeakable cruelties. Reuters' chief photographer for Greece and Cyprus, Yannis Behrakis, was part of the prize-winning team that shared the honor with the Times, documenting the flight of refugees from Syria. Join these correspondents for a panel discussion led by Dean of Academic Affairs Sheila Coronel.
2016 Pulitzer Prize Seminar The Pulitzer Prizes 2017-10-17 | 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners: Exposing injustices around the world. Journalists reporting from Southeast Asia, Afghanistan and the Mediterranean won 2016 Pulitzer Prizes. In "Seafood from Slaves," the Associated Press found fishermen shackled to their trade — leading to the release of 2,000 enslaved people. In her pieces, Alissa Rubin of The New York Times gave voice to Afghan women forced to endure unspeakable cruelties. Reuters' chief photographer for Greece and Cyprus, Yannis Behrakis, was part of the prize-winning team that shared the honor with the Times, documenting the flight of refugees from Syria. Join these correspondents for a panel discussion led by Dean of Academic Affairs Sheila Coronel.
President George W. Bush speaks on press freedom The Pulitzer Prizes 2017-10-11 | The Dallas Morning News and Texas' three presidential libraries — George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and LBJ — came together to celebrate the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes with a marquee event in 2016. Here, President George W. Bush talks about the importance of a free and independent press.
2017 Pulitzer luncheon: Presentation of awards (5/5) The Pulitzer Prizes 2017-06-16 | Pulitzer Administrator Mike Pride introduces Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger. Following remarks by Bollinger, they present the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners with their award certificates. (video 5/5)
2017 Pulitzer luncheon: Board Chair Eugene Robinson (4/5) The Pulitzer Prizes 2017-06-14 | Pulitzer Administrator Mike Pride introduces Pulitzer Board Chair Eugene Robinson, who speaks on the current state of journalism. (Video 4/5)
2017 Pulitzer luncheon: Administrators welcome (3/5) The Pulitzer Prizes 2017-06-12 | Pulitzer Administrator Mike Pride recognizes board members, past administrators, Pulitzer family members, fellowship recipients and staff at the 2017 Pulitzer Prize awards luncheon. (video 3/5)
2017 Pulitzer luncheon: Administrators welcome (2/5) The Pulitzer Prizes 2017-06-12 | Pulitzer Administrator Mike Pride continues his introductory remarks at the 2017 Pulitzer Prize luncheon following a pause for a screening of the Pulitzer Centennial video (available at youtu.be/CwS9JLLa5Zw).
2017 Pulitzer luncheon: Administrators welcome (1/5) The Pulitzer Prizes 2017-06-12 | Pulitzer Administrator Mike Pride welcomes the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners and guests to the annual awards luncheon at Columbia University. (video 1/5)
2017 Pulitzer Prize announcement The Pulitzer Prizes 2017-04-10 | Pulitzer Prize Administrator Mike Pride will announce the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in the World Room at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. on April 10, 2017 at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This announcement marks the 101st year of the prizes.For a complete list of this year's and all past years' winners and finalists, please visit Pulitzer.org.The 21 Pulitzer Prize categories are:Letters, Drama & Music• Fiction• Drama • History• Biography or Autobiography• Poetry• General Nonfiction • Music Journalism• Public Service • Breaking News Reporting• Investigative Reporting • Explanatory Reporting• Local Reporting • National Reporting • International Reporting • Feature Writing • Commentary • Criticism • Editorial Writing • Editorial Cartooning• Breaking News Photography• Feature Photography
Pulitzer Public Service prize winners speak at New Yorks 92nd St Y The Pulitzer Prizes 2016-12-14 | Top executives and staffers from The New York Times and the Associated Press discuss their prize-winning work with Roy Harris, author of the book Pulitzer’s Gold: A Century of Public Service Journalism. Beyond looking at the “backstories” of great Pulitzer winners, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and AP chief executive Gary Pruitt join investigative reporters from both news organizations to consider how media public service must adjust to today’s political and financial challenges.
2016 Pulitzer Prize Seminar, Part 5, Q & A The Pulitzer Prizes 2016-11-11 | Questions from the audience.
2016 Pulitzer Prize seminar, Part 4, Yannis Behrakis, Reuters photographer The Pulitzer Prizes 2016-11-11 | Yannis Behrakis of Reuters discusses his Pulitzer-winning photographs as part of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize Seminar with moderator Sheila Coronel of Columbia University's Journalism School..
