When we set out to celebrate the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes, we chose four themes – ideas that run through the prize-winning work from the beginning till the present.
The themes are Social Justice and Equality, the Presidency, War and Peace, and Power and Accountability. Pulitzer partnered with outside organizations around the country to sponsor extensive programs that examine each theme.
The first of these marquee events, on Social Justice and Equality, is next Thursday and Friday at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. But there is already exciting news out of this collaboration.
David Shedden
David Shedden, who served as Poynter’s librarian for 20 years, has created a comprehensive archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning work with Social Justice and Equality as its theme. The archive includes both journalism and arts and letters winners. It should be an invaluable resource for students and educators and anyone interested in American history.
Roy Peter Clark, vice president and senior scholar at Poynter, started the project with an examination of the Pulitzer winners’ list. He announced the digital publication of Shedden’s archive in a column on the institute’s website.
We at Pulitzer have been blessed in the first quarter of the centennial year to witness amazing enterprise and imagination from our partners and grantees. The new archive is a shining example of this phenomenon, and we are grateful to Shedden and Clark for it.
You can access the archive here, and we hope you will.