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2012 Prizes to be announced April 16, 2012
The 2012 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists will be announced on April 16, 2012 at 3pm eastern daylight time (U.S.). Finalists are not announced in advance. Our Website will carry names of all winners and finalists, photographs and bios of winners, winning photos and cartoons and links to winning journalism entries.
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Welcome to all-digital entry site for journalism prizes
The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism have moved to an electronic entry system.
From now on, submissions on paper will not be accepted. Entries in all 14 journalism categories must be submitted electronically through our special entry site. Please click HERE to register and log in.
On the site you will find entry rules and step-by-step guidance on how to submit an entry.
For more details, please see the "How to enter" page where you will find the Plan of Award (pdf), journalism entry guidelines (with FAQ) (pdf) and technical requirements (pdf). You will also find examples of acceptable entries.
In another significant change, the Pulitzer Board has revised the definition for Local Reporting of Breaking News (pdf) by stressing real-time reporting of breaking events.
All the changes affect the 2012 competition, which covers work during calendar 2011.
Entry deadline: Jan. 25, 2012.
Entry fee: $50 per entry, must be paid by credit card.
Steven Hahn, American historian, and Robert Blau, an editor at Bloomberg News, join Pulitzer Board
Steven Hahn, a widely esteemed Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in 19th century America, and Robert Blau, a managing editor at Bloomberg News noted for his commitment to investigative and narrative journalism, have been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Hahn, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, has written extensively about the American South, African-American history and the international history of slavery, emancipation and race. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for history for A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration.
Blau is managing editor for projects and investigations at Bloomberg News, a global newsgathering organization. He served as managing editor of The Baltimore Sun from 2004 to 2008. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Chicago Tribune, supervising some of the paper’s most prominent work, which included a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for Explanatory Reporting.
Pulitzer-winning journalists share their tips
Four reporters explained how their investigative work won 2011 Pulitzer Prizes during a seminar at Columbia’s Journalism School on Oct. 4. As is often the case, their stories were “hiding in plain sight,” waiting to be discovered and pursued. The panelists were Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives of the Los Angeles Times, who exposed astonishing corruption in a small California city; Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, who reconstructed the death of six fishermen; and Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, who revealed how unsuspecting Floridians face hurricanes with flimsy insurance protection from shaky companies. Moderator was Walt Bodanich, New York Times, three-time Pulitzer winner.
Margaret Sullivan, editor of Buffalo News, joins Pulitzer Board
Margaret M. Sullivan, the editor of The Buffalo News and a proponent of investigative reporting and journalistic service to the community, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Rising through the ranks, Sullivan was named editor of The News in 1999, the first woman to hold that position in the newspaper’s 131-year history. Previously, she was the paper's first female managing editor.
Pulitzer Prize luncheon honors 2011 winners
The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and journalism were presented May 23 at a luncheon on the Columbia University campus.
Pulitzer Board Co-Chairs Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the Associated Press, and Ann Marie Lipinski, curator-designate of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, addressed the crowd of more than 260.
Carroll paid tribute to past and present winners (text|video) while Lipinski spoke of the “meritocracy of excellence” that winners were joining (text|(video).
Also watch a slideshow of the 2011 Pulitzer luncheon and presentation ceremony in the majestic rotunda of Low Library.
Three journalism leaders elected to head Pulitzer Board
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Three longtime leaders in American journalism have been elected co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University has announced.
They are Jim Amoss, editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans; Kathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press; and Ann Marie Lipinski, the former editor of the Chicago Tribune and the curator-designate of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
2011 Pulitzer Prize winners
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Nominated Finalists were announced on April 18. All 2011 Prizewinning work, plus bios and photos of winners, is available on this site.
The Prizes were awarded at a luncheon at Columbia University on May 23, 2011.
2011 Journalism jurors at work
In this slideshow, catch glimpses of the hardworking 2011 Pulitzer Prize Jurors in Journalism.
Arriving from across the nation, 77 jurors gathered at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism on March 7, 8 and 9 of 2011 to judge 1,097 entries in the Journalism competition and nominate three finalists in 14 categories.
For more information on how the Pulitzer process works, read "The tough task of judging journalism's most glittering prize" by Cory Lancaster, managing editor of The Daytona Beach News-Journal.