The Pulitzer Prize Board has announced a $5,000 increase in the monetary award for the prizes. When the 2017 prizes are handed out in May, each of 13 journalism and seven arts and letters categories will carry a $15,000 award.
There is no monetary award for the 14th journalism category, Public Service, which goes to the winning publication rather than an individual or team of journalists. The Public Service winner receives the Pulitzer gold medal.
The 2017 prizes will be awarded for work published during 2016. The deadline for newspapers, magazines and eligible news websites to enter the journalism categories is Jan. 25. Magazines are eligible in all 14 categories for the first time.
The Pulitzer board last raised the monetary award in 2004.
“We celebrated our centennial in 2016,” said Randell Beck, a Pulitzer Prize Board co-chair. “What better time than the start of our second century to increase the prize money for the best in American journalism and arts and letters.”
The announcement of the 101st class of prize winners is scheduled for April 10.