More than two dozen Pulitzer winners speak, read and perform at Harvard
The Nieman Foundation hosted the final Pulitzer Centennial Marquee event, commemorating 9/11 and addressing power and accountability
The Nieman Foundation hosted the final Pulitzer Centennial Marquee event, commemorating 9/11 and addressing power and accountability
Neil Brown, editor and vice president of the Tampa Bay Times, and Tommie Shelby, a philosopher, Africana studies scholar and professor at Harvard University, have been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced today.
Walter Lippmann's provocative musings on the state of American society following the Soviet triumph of Sputnik-1 and the Little Rock desegregation crisis earned the distinguished columnist a rare Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1958.
Bennett and Kennedy have served on the Pulitzer Board since 2002. They replace Anders Gyllenhaal, executive editor of The Miami Herald, who recently completed his tenure as chair. Members of the Board serve a maximum of nine years while a chair serves for only one year.
As the jury chair pointed out, his two fellow jurors knew one of the contending authors rather too well.
Years before the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote about the risks of keeping troops on the ground, and the policy implications of leaving.