Why the Pulitzers are not the Oscars
Pulitzer family correspondence shows robust debate about how to keep the prizes healthy.
Joseph Pulitzer
Where the Pulitzer Prizes began
For a centennial Campfire event, a historian and a biographer return to the Maine town where Pulitzer had the big idea.
When ‘Andes,’ ‘Gush’ and ‘Gaiter’ ruled the New York press
In this second part of an intimate portrait of Joseph Pulitzer, we learn of his personal code, his legion of secretaries and his acute aversion to sound and smell.
Joseph Pulitzer: an intimate portrait
In this first of three excerpts from the memories of a man who knew Joseph Pulitzer well, the publisher emerges as a man of enormous impulses.
‘Just as I really am, with all my strain and suffering there’
In celebration of the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes, Emily Rauh Pulitzer has lent John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Joseph Pulitzer to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The portrait, from her private collection, will be exhibited at the Newseum from Jan. 28, 2016, through Jan. 15, 2017. Here is the story of how the painting was made.
Pulitzer Prizes expand eligibility in Feature and Investigative Categories
The decision to allow magazines to enter two prize categories followed the Pulitzer Prize Board’s recognition that many exemplars of the form have newly entered the realm of daily and weekly journalism. On the question of partnerships, the Board eased its rules in light of the growing number of joint journalistic projects being undertaken by newsrooms, and the value of these partnerships to high quality journalism.