Pulitzer News

Read stories about the Prize announcement, which streamed via video on May 4.

Read and see reactions to the Prize announcement, which streamed via video on May 4.

Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy announced the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes via video stream at Pulitzer.org on Monday, May 4. Watch video of the announcement and read the full list of winners.

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.

The following remarks were delivered in New York, N.Y., by Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy as part of the announcement of the 2020 Prize winners in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music on May 4, 2020.

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.

The New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars nad Writers has awarded the 2004 History winner a fellowship to work on his next book, "The Illiberal Tradition in America."

A special performance in New York of the Broadway production of Harper Lee's 1961 Fiction winner brought the classic to public school students from across the five boroughs. Mayor Bill de Blasio and film director Spike Lee introduced the production.

In honor of Black History Month, Google released a video advertisment revealing the most-searched-for Pulitzer Prize winner — Kendrick Lamar.

To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the New York Public Library reviewed its records to see which books had been checked out most in its history. Four Pulitzer winners were in the top 10.