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Journalism deadline today!
The deadline for journalism entries is Tuesday, February 1, 2011. (This deadline is for postmark.) If you are sending packages via FedEx, please select the "Direct Signature Reguired" option. Our mailing address is: The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University, 709 Journalism Bldg., 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027.
Pulitzer Prize Board announces changes for 2011 journalism competition
The Pulitzer Prize Board has announced several changes to the journalism contest rules for 2011, spelling out the board’s interest in seeing entries in all the journalistic formats that news organizations use to generate impactful work.
The changes recognize the growing importance of visual storytelling using video and other multimedia formats and the board’s ongoing intention to honor the best journalism from eligible news organizations, regardless of format.
Newspapers and online-only news sites that publish at least weekly are eligible. Magazines and broadcast media, and their respective Web sites, remain ineligible.
The new rules for 12 of the 14 categories state explicitly that entries may use any available journalistic tool, including text reporting, videos, databases, multimedia or interactive presentations or any combination of those formats. The rules did not change for the two photography categories, which are restricted to still images.
examples of Pulitzer-winning digital content...
Eugene Robinson joins Pulitzer Prize Board
Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and associate editor at The Washington Post, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Robinson’s essays on politics, culture and events have helped shape the debate on issues such as the war in Iraq, the limits of presidential power and the rebuilding of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast.
A 30-year veteran of The Post, Robinson was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary.
2010 Pulitzer Prize winners honored at Columbia
The abiding importance of excellence and the power of the single person were underscored by the co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board when the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and journalism were presented on May 24 at a luncheon on the Columbia University campus. More than 300 attended.
David Kennedy, an historian at Stanford University, explored the history of excellence, saying it is “rare, difficult to achieve, but a source of much happiness.” (text/video)
His co-chair, Amanda Bennett, an executive editor at Bloomberg News, stressed how distinguished journalism repeatedly comes down “to the decisions, and the actions, and the passion of one person.” (text/video)
Also on the luncheon page, watch a slide show of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize luncheon and presentation ceremony at Low Library on the Columbia campus.Pulitzer winners In the News
Video from PBS Newshour, October 8, 2010: Once a student and teacher, violinist Hillary Hahn and Pulitzer Prizewinning composer Jennifer Higdon have been teaming together to play music.
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2010 Pulitzer Prize winners
The 2010 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, were announced on April 12, 2010. Prizewinning articles, columns, photos and cartoons are available, as are bios and photos of the winners. The Prizes will be awarded at a luncheon at Columbia University on May 24, 2010. (Prizewinning Breaking News Photograph by Mary Chind, left, and a photo from Craig F. Walker's Prizewinning Feature Photography portfolio, right.)
Journalism jurors on the job
Arriving from across the nation, 77 jurors gathered at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism on March 1, 2 and 3 of 2010 to judge 1,103 entries in the Journalism competition and nominate three finalists in 14 categories.
Photos by Photo jurors Nancy Andrews, Steve Gonzales and Richard Murphy. Click on image of Editorial Writing juror Jeffrey Good, right, to see glimpses of the jurors at work.
