Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an American journalist and media prize. He is there as famous and coveted as the Oscar in the film industry with journalists. With his awards for fiction and nonfiction, he is the most important American literary prize. There are also excellent reports, photos, cartoons, plays and music recordings.

It was donated by the journalist and newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is awarded since 1917. Every year is the Pulitzer School of Journalism at New York's Columbia University announce the winners, selected by a panel of U.S. journalists and publishers. The prize money per category is about $ 10,000.

Announcement and ceremony

The winners will be announced usually in late April. The awarding of the Pulitzer Prize takes place about a month later during a luncheon in the library of Columbia University.

First time, a Pulitzer Prize was awarded on June 4, 1917.

In 2010, the prize was first awarded to an online publication. The journalist Sheri Fink ( ProPublica ) won in the category of Investigative Journalism for an article about the work of a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Categories and winners

→ see also: Category: Pulitzer Prize winners

News Categories

The most important of the award categories is called the service to the public, nor receive their award winners since 1918 in addition to the prize money, the Pulitzer gold medal.

The Pulitzer Prize is being awarded (including the Special Prize ) in the following 22 categories:

Former categories

Over the years, several categories have been adjusted, expanded, or renamed:

  • Newspaper History Award was presented only once in 1918.
  • Reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for reporting), 1917-1947.
  • Correspondence ( Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence ), 1929-1947.
  • Background Journalism ( Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism ), from 1987 to 1997 was renamed the background reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting ).
  • General News Reports ( Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting ), 1985-1990, was to current news reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting ).
  • General and local or local reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting ), 1964-1984, was to Current reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting ).
  • Local investigative specialized reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting ), 1964-1984, was to Investigative Reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting ).
  • Beat Reporting (beat reporting).
  • Local reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting ), 1948 to 1952, was divided into Local Reporting, Edition Time and Local Reporting, No Edition Time
  • Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time, 1953-1963, became ( Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting ).
  • Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time, 1953-1963, became ( Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting ).
  • Photography ( Pulitzer Prize for Photography ) in 1968 in Feature photo reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography ) and local news (spot news category ), which was renamed again later in Current photo reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography ) divided.
  • Local news reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting ), 1991-1997, was to date reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting ).
  • International Telegraphic Reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International), became international reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting ).
  • Telegraphic Reporting, National ( Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - National ) was added to National reporting ( Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting ).
  • Roman ( Pulitzer Prize for the Novel ) ( 1917-1947 ) was to Fiction ( Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ) (since 1948).

Timeline of the Pulitzer Prize - categories

  • Prize awarded in an even current category ( the small number is in the year in which there was the category for the first time. )
  • Awarded prize in a category now renamed ( the two small figures are respectively in the year in which there was the category for the first and last time under the given name. )
  • Prize in a category that no longer exists there today ( the two small figures are respectively in the year in which there was the category for the first and last time. )
  • Price not given, although it was the category for that year.
  • The small numbers represent the last digit of each year and link to the corresponding article.
  • The names of some of old or today now renamed categories (in italics) have not been translated because the intricacies are difficult in the English name into German mutatis mutandis translatable.
Non-fiction Literary award Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing Pulitzer Prize for Commentary Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer Prize for Drama Pulitzer Prize for History Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Pulitzer Prize for Music 2013 Pulitzer Prize Aufbau Integrated Authority File
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