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1. April 19, 2011 03:05 PM

   My Birthday The Day Daddy Won a Pulitzer

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   Yesterday, the Boston Globe's Sebastian Smee won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, cited for his “vivid and exuberant writing about art’’ and for “often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation." Here is the Globe's take on the news: Globe art critic Smee wins Pulitzer And here is Poynter's take (see the 10th bullet point from the top):...

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2. April 23, 2012 03:17 PM

   A picture is worth a thousand memes

   Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker responds to Farhad Manjoo

   By Matt Wuerker

   Farhad Manjoo thinks political cartoons are stale, stupid, and unfunny—or so he argued in Slate last week, saying that, instead of honoring cartoons, the Pulitzer committee should consider including “biting infographics, hilarious image macros, irresistible Tumblrs … clever Web comics, and even poignant listicles.” But political cartoons are neither homogeneous nor passé. They come in every shape and medium and...

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3. April 20, 2011 12:35 PM

   Be a Pulitzer Judge

   To which finalist would you give the Breaking News prize?

   By The Editors

   On Monday, the Pulitzer Prize Board handed out awards in 13 out of 14 categories for journalism. No award was given, for the first time in Pulitzer history, in the Breaking News Reporting category. The non-awarding of this award led the Associated Press's report on the Pulitzers (headline: "No breaking news Pulitzer in year of disasters"): The earthquake in Haiti...

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4. April 18, 2012 11:16 AM

   Nobody wins, again

   For the ninth time, the Pulitzer Board can't agree on a winner for editorials

   By Kira Goldenberg

   This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday afternoon, and for the ninth time in 95 years, there was no winner selected for best editorial writing, the journalistic category with the most non-wins by far. (Fiction was also left without a winner this year, for the 11th time. But this is, after all, a journalism review, not a literary one.)...

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5. October 23, 2012 04:20 PM

   Pulitzer Prize Board announces three new members

   Steve Coll, Quiara Alegria Hudes, and Aminda Marques Gonzalez to join

   By Hazel Sheffield

   Columbia University announced today that three new members are joining the Pulitzer Prize Board. Steve Coll, who has worked at The New Yorker since 2005, the playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes, and Aminda Marques Gonzalez, an executive editor at The Miami Herald, are the latest additions to the board since Stephen Engelberg of ProPublica joined in May. “They represent excellence from...

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6. April 18, 2011 03:31 PM

   Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced—and the Journal’s One of Them

   By Joel Meares

   The Wall Street Journal has won its first Pulitzer since Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 2007. The award went to Joseph Rago in the category of Editorial Writing “for his well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.” Other major winners included the Los Angeles Times in the category of Public Service, for...

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7. April 24, 2012 06:01 PM

   Pulitzer winners donate their prize to their peers

   The $10,000 prize for investigative reporting will teach more Seattle Times reporters how to uncover stories

   By Olivia Smith

   Instead of keeping the $10,000 that accompanied their recent Pulitzer for investigative reporting, Ken Armstrong and Michael Berens decided to donate it so that other journalists could learn their prize-winning skills. “So much public information is now maintained exclusively in a digital format,” said Berens. “Yet, so many reporters don’t know how to access and analyze it. Training is the...

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8. April 25, 2012 05:19 PM

   Reporting that changed history

   A journalist mines the past to inform the future

   By Charles Lewis

   The Pulitzer season is a time for inspiration and reflection. Inspiration because those and other awards each year remind us of how important public service reporting is, and also that American news outlets—even those struggling financially—continue to do it. A case in point is The Philadelphia Inquirer, which won the Gold Medal for its series about violence in the city’s...

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9. April 16, 2012 05:15 PM

   Six degrees of aggregation

   How The Huffington Post ate the Internet

   By Michael Shapiro

   Of the many and conflicting stories about how The Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54 million comments in the past year alone, how it came to surpass the traffic of virtually all the nation’s established news organizations and amass content so voluminous...

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10. May 21, 2012 03:17 PM

    The Pulitzer Prize luncheon, storified

    Giddy prize recipients react to Tom Friedman, winning

    By Kira Goldenberg

    The Pulitzer Prizes were officially presented to recipients on Monday afternoon at Columbia University's Low Library rotunda. See attendee reactions in (reverse chronological order) real time below: [View the story "Pulitzer Prize luncheon, May 21, 2012" on Storify]

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