Journalism prizes can have tangible value
Writing from Aktau, Kazakhstan, during a multi-year journey on foot, two-time Pulitzer winner Paul Salopek reflects on his low-tech, high-tech approach to journalism.
Origin Stories
‘Yep, she gets paid to do that’
A journalist with blue-collar roots, Connie Schultz of Ohio, gets the opportunity of a lifetime and rises to it.
Life as a ‘normal white person’
An author reflects on how Birmingham became the Gettysburg of the Civil Rights Movement.
The magic of words
Leonard Pitts Jr. has called himself a writer since age 5 — when he told gripping tales about the adventures of a boy superhero, coincidentally named Leonard, too.
Keeping the story in history
For two-time Pulitzer winner Alan Taylor, the New Social History proved to be a good tool for enriching American stories.
Biography without modifiers
Megan Marshall's book on the Peabody sisters was a Pulitzer finalist. The next, on Margaret Fuller, won the prize. Now she's working on a biography of Elizabeth Bishop. Does that make Marshall a 'cultural,' 'feminist' or 'literary' biographer? She has her doubts.
Boom days in Shanghai
How a Pulitzer traveling fellowship prepared young reporter Kathleen Kingsbury for the work that would one day win her a Pulitzer Prize.
'I’ve come to think of my process as the four legs of a table'
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss shares his surefire method for getting the story right.
Going with the flow in the Haight
The craving for immediacy and spiritual diversion in the ’60s started a Pulitzer-winning poet on his way.
