Pulitzer Prize

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The Pulitzer Prize , officially the Pulitzer Prize , is an American media award for outstanding journalistic , literary and musical contributions. Since it was founded in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer , the award has enjoyed a similar reputation as the Oscar in the film industry. With its awards for novels and non-fiction books , it is the most important contemporary American literary award . There are also reports excellent, photos, cartoons, poetry, plays and musical recordings.

Every year, the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York announces the winners, who are selected by a jury made up of American journalists and publishers . The prize money is approximately $ 15,000 per category . The most prestigious award is the award of the gold medal to outstanding newspaper houses for service to the public , officially the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service .

Announcement and award

The winners are usually announced at the end of April. The award ceremony takes place about a month later during lunch in the Columbia University library.

A Pulitzer Prize was first awarded on June 4, 1917.

In 2010, the prize was awarded to an online publication for the first time. Journalist Sheri Fink ( ProPublica ) won the Investigative Journalism category for an article about the work of a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina .

In response to the often criticized low consideration of minorities in awarding the award, the African-American author Ishmael Reed initiated the American Book Award in 1980 , which is donated annually by the Before Columbus Foundation .

Categories and award winners

German award winners

Over the years, Germans also received the Pulitzer Honor. The first well-known German award winner was the photographer Anja Niedringhaus , who won the 2005 award in the “Breaking News Photography” category. Another German winner is Daniel Etter , who was also one of the 2016 winners in the “Breaking News Photography” category. In 2017, the two German investigative journalists Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer stood on the stage of the award ceremony at Columbia University and accepted the award - as members of the Panama Papers team - in the "Explanatory Reporting" category. As another author named in the ICIJ texts submitted, the German journalist Petra Blum is one of the direct winners.

Current categories

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Pulitzer Gold Medal depicting Benjamin Franklin and a printer

The most important of the award categories is the public service , whose winners have received the Pulitzer Gold Medal since 1918 in addition to the prize money.

The Pulitzer Prize is currently awarded in the following 23 categories (including the Special Prize):

category Category awarded
since
journalism Journalism
Public service Public service 1917
Current reporting Breaking news reporting 1953
Investigative journalism Investigative reporting 1953
Background reporting Explanatory reporting 1998
Local coverage Local reporting 2007
Domestic reporting National reporting 1948
Foreign reporting International reporting 1948
Feature writing Feature writing 1979
comment Commentary 1970
criticism Criticism 1970
editorial Editorial writing 1917
cartoon Editorial cartooning 1922
Current photo coverage Breaking News Photography 2000
Feature photo coverage Feature Photography 1968
Audio reporting Audio reporting 2020
Literature, theater and music Letters, Drama & Music
Fiction Fiction 1948
theatre drama 1917
story History 1917
Biography or autobiography Biography or Autobiography 1917
poetry Poetry 1922
Non-fiction General non-fiction 1962
music Music 1943
Special Price Special Awards and Citations
Special Price Special Awards and Citations 1930

Former categories

Several categories have been discontinued, expanded or renamed over the years:

  • Newspaper History Award was given only once in 1918.
  • Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for Reporting), 1917–1947.
  • Correspondence (Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence), 1929–1947.
  • Background Journalism (Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism), 1987–1997 renamed Background Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting).
  • Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting, 1985–1990, became Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.
  • Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting, 1964-1984, became Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.
  • Local Investigative Expert Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting), 1964-1984, became Investigative Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting).
  • Beat Reporting (Beat Reporting).
  • Local Reporting, (Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting), 1948–1952, was split into Local Reporting, Edition Time and Local Reporting, No Edition Time
  • Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time, 1953-1963, became (Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting).
  • Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time, 1953-1963, became (Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting).
  • Photography (Pulitzer Prize for Photography), was divided into Feature Photo Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography) and Local News (Spot news category), later renamed Current Photo Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography).
  • Local News Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting), 1991–1997, became Current News (Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting).
  • International Telegraphic Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International), became International Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting).
  • Telegraphic Reporting, National (Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - National) became National Reporting (Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting).
  • Roman (Pulitzer Prize for the Novel) (1917-1947) became fiction (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) (since 1948).

Pulitzer Prize Category Timeline

Pulitzer Prize Category Timeline
10s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Current categories
7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th journalism
7th 9 1 0 2 5 1 3 8th 2 editorial
7th 9 8th 7th reporting -
7th 0 5 0 Public service
8th Newspaper History Award -
2 3 6th 0 5 3 cartoon
9 7th Correspondence -
2 7th Foreign reporting by telegraph
8th 7th Foreign reporting
2 3 7th Domestic reporting by telegraph
8th 1 Domestic reporting
2 7th photography -
8th Feature photo coverage
8th 9 Spot News Photography
0 Current photo coverage
5 0 Specialized reporting
1 6th Beat reporting -
8th 2 7th Local coverage
3 3 Local Reporting - Edition time 1
4th 4th Local General or Spot News Reporting 1
5 0 General News Reporting
1 7th Spot news reporting
8th 1 Current reporting
3 3 Local Reporting - No Edition time 1
4th 4th Local Investigative Specialized Reporting 1
5 Investigative journalism
0 comment
0 2 criticism
9 4th 4th Feature writing
5 7th Explanatory Journalism
8th Background reporting
10s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Literature, theater, music
7th 2 Biography or autobiography
7th 9 4th 4th story
7th 9 2 4th 7th 1 3 4th 6th 8th 2 4th 6th 7th 6th theatre
7th 0 1 6th 7th novel
8th 4th 7th 4th 1 4th 7th 2 Fiction
2 6th poetry
3 3 4th 5 1 music
2 Non-fiction
10s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Further
Special Price
7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th Current categories
  •  Prize awarded in a current category (the small number is in the year in which the category first appeared.)
  •  Prize awarded in a category that has been renamed today (the two small numbers are in the year in which the category was first and last under the respective name.)
  •  Prize awarded in a category that no longer exists today (the two small numbers are in the year in which the category was first and last.)
  •  Prize not awarded, although there was a category in the corresponding year.
    • The small numbers represent the last digit of the respective year and link to the corresponding article.
    • The names of some old or now renamed categories (italics) have not yet been translated into German, as the subtleties in the English name are very difficult to translate.
    1It appears that it was the Local Reporting - Edition time category that was renamed Local General or Spot News Reporting in 1964 , and Local Reporting - No Edition time was renamed Local Investigative Specialized Reporting . But the pairing could also be the other way around. So far there is no evidence of this.

    literature

    • Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): The Pulitzer prize archive. A history and anthology of award winning materials in journalism, letters, and arts. Saur, Munich 1987ff., ISBN 3-598-30170-7 .
    • Hal Buell: Time Images. 45 years of Pulitzer Prize Photography. Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-3596-9 .
    • Katja Behling: trophy of the publicists. The man behind the award. In: Structure . Issue 11, 2008, pp. 15-17.
    • Roy Harris: Pulitzer's Gold: A Century of Public Service Journalism. 2nd, revised and updated edition. Columbia University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-231-17028-4 .

    Web links

    Wiktionary: Pulitzer Prize  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
    Commons : Pulitzer Prize  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ cf. Pulitzer Prize 2010: Online publication wins coveted prize ( Memento from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, April 12, 2010 (accessed on April 13, 2010)
    2. ^ The Pulitzer Prize: Winners 2005 - staff60. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
    3. ^ The Pulitzer Prize: Winners 2016 - New York Times. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
    4. ↑ a b The Pulitzer Prize: Winners 2017 - Panama Papers. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
    5. ↑ All Putin's Men: Secret Records Reveal Money Network Tied to Russian Leader . ( icij.org [accessed December 3, 2017]).
    6. ↑ pulitzer.org: the Medal
    7. ↑ The Medal - Pulitzer Gold , Description of the Pulitzer Gold Medal, (English).