The Pulitzer Prize is an American award for excellence in arts, particularly journalism, music, and literature. It is named after Joseph Pulitzer, a journalist who revolutionized the New York World. There are 21 categories, with winners receiving $10,000 and a certificate. Newspapers nominate themselves by submitting relevant material.
A Pulitzer Prize is an American prize awarded for distinction in the arts. The Pulitzer Prizes are particularly related to journalism, but prizes are also awarded in the fields of music and literature. A win is a great honor, especially for a newspaper, with the all-time record Pulitzer Prize held by the New York Times, with 95 collective Pulitzers in 2007. Incidentally, the pronunciation, according to Columbia University, is “pull it sir.”
The awards are named after Joseph Pulitzer, a prominent late 19th and early 20th century journalist who revolutionized the New York World, a major New York newspaper. Under Pulitzer, the paper became known for tough investigative journalism and also contributed to public service through a variety of public campaigns. A year after Pulitzer’s death in 19, the Columbia University School of Journalism was founded, and in 20 the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by a judging panel composed of this institution and “persons of distinction.” The Pulitzer board of directors continues to include academics and scholars from Columbia University, as well as prestigious members of the journalistic community.
There are 21 Pulitzer Prizes: one for music, six for literature and 14 for journalism. Journalism awards include awards for investigative reporting, editorial cartooning, breaking news photography, breaking news reporting, explanatory reporting, national reporting, critique, international reporting, photography reporting, editorial writing, comments, local reporting, reporting and public service. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs, in particular, have often become extremely famous, chronicling important events in human history or portraying emotional scenes through the lens of a camera. In literature, Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in fiction, drama, poetry, history, biography, and general non-fiction.
A Pulitzer Prize winner receives a US $10,000 prize along with a certificate recognizing the achievement. The Public Service Award is given to newspapers, not individuals, although a specific journalist may be recognized in the text of the citation and the newspaper receives a gold Pulitzer Medal with an image of Pulitzer’s face on its side and a hand- printing machine operated by the other.
Typically, newspapers nominate themselves for the Pulitzer Prizes by submitting relevant material along with an entry form. To qualify, the paper must be published in the United States at least once a week, but the journalist submitted for the award need not be American. Entrants in the music and literature categories also submit their own work, which includes copies of the work they are nominating.
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