Pulitzer

[ pool-it-ser, pyoo-lit- ]

noun

1. Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.

Pulitzer

/ ˈpʊlɪtsə /

noun

1. PulitzerJoseph18471911MUSHungarianWRITING: newspaper proprietor Joseph. 1847–1911, US newspaper publisher, born in Hungary. He established the Pulitzer prizes

Example Sentences

Pulitzer shared the tweet on Telegram, where followers replied with “Firing squad!”

From Washington Post

After Greenberg received the Pulitzer he recalled telling others at the Commercial that he was fortunate to have a publisher who was also an editor.

From Washington Post

The musical version of Fun Home was a Pulitzer finalist that same year and won five Tony Awards in 2015.

From Time

In 2016 ProPublica shared the Pulitzer gold medal for Public Service, the highest honor in American journalism, for a partnership with the New York Daily News.

From ProPublica

While a deputy managing editor at the Las Vegas Sun, he oversaw that newsroom’s investigation of patient harm in Nevada hospitals, which was a Pulitzer finalist and won the Goldsmith Prize.

From ProPublica

Fred Logevall at Cornell won the Pulitzer Prize and is a diplomatic historian; he just started a book on Kennedy.

From The Daily Beast

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has followed Frank Bascombe through four novels.

From The Daily Beast

Jazz is now entrenched in high schools and colleges, and gets honored with Pulitzer Prizes and genius grants.

From The Daily Beast

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will implied in an interview that Ebola may be airborne.

From The Daily Beast

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.

From The Daily Beast

We had met at the funeral of Joseph Pulitzer, in whose employ we had served in the past.

From Project Gutenberg

Joseph Pulitzer, a poor emigrant, crawled in a cellar way in New York to sleep, and he dreamed of owning a great newspaper.

From Project Gutenberg

Then, one day, the World was sold to Mr. Pulitzer and all the staff resigned.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1883 Mr. Joseph Pulitzer bought the World and instituted a totally new system of newspaper conduct.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Pulitzer undertook to make a newspaper, not for the educated class, but for all sorts and conditions of men.

From Project Gutenberg

More About Pulitzer

What is a Pulitzer?

Pulitzer is a short name for the Pulitzer Prize, one of the annual prizes awarded for excellence in journalism, photojournalism, fiction and nonfiction books, drama, poetry, and music. Along with writers and artists, some prizes are also awarded to news publications. They are primarily awarded to U.S. citizens and U.S.-based publications.

Winning a Pulitzer is widely considered one of the most prestigious honors in these fields, especially for U.S. journalism.

How is Pulitzer pronounced?

The correct pronunciation of Pulitzer is PULL-it-sur (not PYOOL-it-sur).

When is the Pulitzer awarded?

The 2021 Pulitzer Prize winners will be announced on June 11, 2021.

The Pulitzer Prizes are most commonly announced in late May.

More information and context on the Pulitzer

The Pulitzer Prizes were established through the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, an influential Hungarian American journalist and publisher in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The prizes were first awarded in 1917.

Finalists and winners are chosen by the Pulitzer Prize Board and the announcement of the awards is administered by Columbia University. Judges on the prize committee include writers, editors, and publishers.

Though it is awarded in some of the same fields, the Nobel Prize is not affiliated with the Pulitzer Prize.

What are some terms that often get used in discussing the Pulitzer?

• Pulitzer Prize
• journalism
• investigative
• reporting
• photography
• commentary
• criticism
• cartoon
• book
• fiction
• nonfiction
• history
• biography
• drama
• poetry
• music

How is the Pulitzer discussed in real life?

The Pulitzer Prize is commonly called the Pulitzer for short. It is considered a highly prestigious award, especially in the field of U.S. journalism.

When I read @nhannahjones commentary kicking off @nytimes 1619 Project – marking 400 years since the first enslaved African arrived on American shores – I thought it was one of the best things I’d ever read about slavery. Today she won a Pulitzer for it. https://t.co/vy8D55l1jj

— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) May 4, 2020

Backstory of the Phila. police official charged with assault for allegedly beating protestors: in 2014, he supervised officers so bad that @PhillyDailyNews won a Pulitzer for exposing them.

Bologna's still a supervisor, now one rank above captain.https://t.co/0KWUWB9qIH

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 6, 2020

Make sure to read the amazing work of ⁦@mschwirtz⁩ ⁦@ddknyt⁩ ⁦@dionnesearcey⁩ and the rest of our international team who won the Pulitzer for their groundbreaking reporting on Russia's international reach. https://t.co/PalzNEeDtk

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) May 5, 2020

 

 

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True or False?

The Pulitzer is awarded only to journalists.