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2018 Pulitzer Prize

April 23 , 2018 2262 days 853 0
  • The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by Pulitzer Prize Board for work during 2017 calendar year.
  • In Journalism, New York Times newspaper won three Pulitzer With this so far New York Times has won 125 Pulitzer Prizes in total.
  • The New York Times and The New Yorker have jointly won the Pulitzer Prize, in the Public Service category for reporting long-running Harvey Weinstein’s    sexual harassment and abuse in Hollywood.
  • In Letters, Drama & Music, Andrew Sean Greer’s comic novel Less won best Fiction award.

Journalism

Public Service - New York Times. Breaking News Reporting - Staff of The Press Democrat.
Investigative Reporting - The Washington Post Explanatory Reporting - The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network.
Local Reporting - The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff National Reporting - New York Times and Washington Post
International Reporting - Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato of Reuters Feature Writing - Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter, GQ
Commentary - John Archibald of Alabama Media Group, Birmingham, Ala. Criticism - Jerry Saltz of New York magazine
Editorial Writing - Andie Dominick of the Des Moines Register. Editorial Cartooning - Jake Halpern, freelance writer and Michael Sloan, freelance cartoonist, New York Times.
Breaking News Photography - Ryan Kelly of the Daily Progress Feature Photography - Photography Staff of Reuters

Letters, Drama & Music

Fiction - Less, by Andrew Sean Greer. Drama - Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok.
History - The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E. Davis (Live right/W.W. Norton). Biography or Autobiography - Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser
Poetry - Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, by Frank Bidart. General Nonfiction - Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
Music - by Kendrick Lamar  

Pulitzer Prize

  • It was established in 1917 by American-Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
  • The Pulitzer Prize is an annual award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in United States.
  • The award is administered by Columbia University in New York City.
  • Prizes are awarded yearly in 21 categories.
 

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