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News May 4, 2020

Announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes

Columbia University today announces the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. The Board also announces the election of its two co-chairs: Stephen Engelberg, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, President, Publisher and Executive Editor, Miami Herald.

News April 30, 2020

Pulitzer Prize Board Postpones Announcement of 2020 Awards

The Pulitzer Prize Board has decided to postpone the 2020 award winners’ announcement. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2020, the Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music now will be announced on Monday, May 4, 2020 at 3 p.m., streamed at Pulitzer.org.

Stories From the Administrator

Race Revisited

Following the racial unrest in Charlottesville — and President Trump’s response to it — take a look back at The New York Times' prize-winning series, 'How Race is Lived in America.'

Stories The Presidency

Merriman Smith’s account of JFK’s assassination

Smith might have been the unhappiest reporter in President Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963. He had split from his wife, he was broke, and United Press International, his employer, wouldn’t pay an advance for the trip because he was behind on his expense reports.