Pulitzer Prizes

Cultural

A series of prizes awarded annually since 1917 for high achievement in American journalism, literature, drama, and music. They were endowed by the newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

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She was also part of WSJ teams that were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting on Elon Musk in 2025, and for the Capital Assets series in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

He is suing various media organizations — including the board of the Pulitzer Prizes and the Des Moines Register and its parent company, Gannett — over journalism he claims was libelous or unfair.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025

"This is an American media outlet that has won 53 Pulitzer Prizes," Lapid said in a statement.

From Salon • May 21, 2024

Its Olympia reporter revealed Washington lawmakers’ appalling “legislative privilege” secrecy ploy, and McClatchy papers in Miami and Kansas City won Pulitzer Prizes in 2022.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

It appears that the whole family had great talents, as his grandfather was a Brigadier General, his father a Colonel, and both Stephen and his brother William Rose Benet won Pulitzer Prizes for poetry.

From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Benét, Stephen Vincent

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