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| Joseph Pulitzer |
Today, The Grandma has been reading about Joseph Pulitzer, the Hungarian newspaper publisher who gives his name to the most prestigious award in journalism.
The Grandma loves and admires good journalism, something very difficult to find nowadays where the big media seem more interested in creating and influencing opinions than in explaining the real events.
As George Orwell said, Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
The Grandma loves and admires good journalism, something very difficult to find nowadays where the big media seem more interested in creating and influencing opinions than in explaining the real events.
As George Orwell said, Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
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 medal.
The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, but only those that have specifically been entered. There is a $75 entry fee, for each desired entry category. Entries must fit in at least one of the specific prize categories, and cannot simply gain entrance for being literary or musical. Works can also only be entered in a maximum of two categories, regardless of their properties.
Each year, 102 jurors
are selected by the Pulitzer Prize Board to serve on 20 separate juries
for the 21 award categories; one jury makes recommendations for both
photography awards.
Most juries consist of five members, except for those for Public Service, Investigative Reporting, Explanatory Reporting, Feature writing and Commentary categories,
which have seven members; however all book juries have at least three
members. For each award category, a jury makes three nominations.
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| The Pulitzer Prize |
The board selects the winner by majority vote from the nominations or bypasses the nominations and selects a different entry following a 75 percent majority vote.
The board can also vote to issue no award. The board and journalism jurors are not paid for their work; however, the jurors in letters, music, and drama receive a $2,000 honorarium for the year, and each chair receives $2,500.
The board can also vote to issue no award. The board and journalism jurors are not paid for their work; however, the jurors in letters, music, and drama receive a $2,000 honorarium for the year, and each chair receives $2,500.
Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer gave money in his will to Columbia University to launch a journalism school and establish 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 on October 29, 1911, 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.
Awards are made in categories relating to journalism, arts, letters and fiction. Reports and photographs by United States–based newspapers, magazines and news organizations, including news websites, that publish regularly are eligible for the journalism prize.
More information: The Pulitzer Prizes
Beginning in 2007, an assortment of online elements will be permitted in all journalism categories except for the competition's two photography categories, which will continue to restrict entries to still images.
In December 2008 it was announced that for the first time content published in online-only news sources would be considered.
Although certain winners with magazine affiliations, most notably Moneta Sleet, Jr., were allowed to enter the competition due to eligible partnerships or concurrent publication of their work in newspapers, the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board and the Pulitzer Prize Board historically resisted the admission of magazines into the competition, resulting in the formation of the National Magazine Awards at the Columbia Journalism School in 1966.
In 2015, magazines were allowed to enter for the first time in two categories -Investigative Reporting and Feature Writing. By 2016, this provision had expanded to three additional categories -International Reporting, Criticism and Editorial Cartooning.
In October 2016, magazine eligibility was extended to all journalism categories. Hitherto confined to the local reporting of breaking news, the Breaking News Reporting category was expanded to encompass all domestic breaking news events in 2017.
More information: CNN
Principles, convictions and motives
are neither sold nor bargained for!
Joseph Pulitzer
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