When Tom Herman began making his documentary "Dateline-Saigon" about the journalists who covered Vietnam, he didn't realize he would end up with five Pulitzer-winning protagonists. As the film becomes available for streaming, learn more about how their stories came to be told.
To celebrate the Pulitzer Centennial in 2016, the Poynter Institute hosted an event focused on Civil Rights. The longtime Georgia congressman, who has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80, delivered the keynote. Read below to see highlights from his remarks, and watch the full video.
In this week's edition of USA Today's "The Backstory," the paper's Editor-in-Chief and Pulitzer Prize Board member Nicole Carroll spoke to Pulitzer winner David Blight about the life of Anna Murray Douglass, social reformer Frederick Douglass' first wife.
'The jail’s corrections officers are not bad people. They go home, love their kids, probably give to a charity. But their indifference to a detainee’s death is what should strike everyone,' Gerritt said of his Prize-winning work on deaths of pre-trial detainees in Texas.
With brick-and-mortar shops shuttered in response to COVID-19, Pulitzer-winning authors and their readers have served as boosters for independent bookstores. First launched in January, Bookshop.org aims to lend financial support to local bookshops through its online retail marketplace.
New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin was a champion of his city and its citizens — including on young man with AIDS, whose story is told in this 1985 prize-winning piece. In honor of Pride Month, revisit his story.
Pulitzer Prize Board Co-Chair and ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg discusses surveillance of journalists following revelations by ProPublica Local Reporting Network contributor Wendi C. Thomas.
From Music winner Wynton Marsalis to Criticism winner Hilton Als, Pulitzer winners, finalists, board members and jurors have been writing on the current state of American society. Read a round-up of their thoughts.
Past Pulitzer Drama juror and longtime critic Linda Winer speaks with Pulitzer-winning playwrights about the path forward for their profession after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Past Pulitzer Prize Board Chair Gregory L. Moore examines what the pandemic means for newsrooms across the U.S.
