The Pulitzer Prize 2015


The winners of 99th edition of Pulitzer Prizes were announced on 20th April,2015 at the Columbia University. The administrator of Pulitzer, Mike Pride made the announcement and it was also streamed live on youtube in a channel named Pulitzer Prize announcement 2015. pulitzer prize

This year the Pulitzer office received roughly 1,200 journalism entries, 1,400 books, 200 music compositions and 100 plays considered.Two categories, investigative reporting and feature writing, were opened to magazines this year, which prompted 60 additional entries.
The process of selection starts from Pulitzer jury which comprises of expert authors, scholars, photo journalists, poets, composers and critics. Some of them are Pulitzer prize winners themselves. They select three best works from each category in no order of preference. Then the finalists go to the 18 member Pulitzer prize board which deeply scans and observes each work to declare the winner with proper voting. The debates and discussions are never made in public as they are confidential. They operate on the premise that the works of the winners speaks for them.
The complete list winners along with theirs works are :-

Journalism

PUBLIC SERVICE - The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING - The Seattle Times Staff
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING - Two Prizes: - Eric Lipton of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Staff
EXPLANATORY REPORTING - Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News
LOCAL REPORTING - Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA
NATIONAL REPORTING - Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING - The New York Times Staff
FEATURE WRITING - Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times
COMMENTARY - Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle
CRITICISM - Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times
EDITORIAL WRITING - Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe
EDITORIAL CARTOONING - Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY - Daniel Berehulak , freelance photographer, The New York Times

Books, Drama and Music

FICTION - "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
DRAMA - "Between Riverside and Crazy" by Stephen Adly Guirgis
HISTORY - "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People " by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)
BIOGRAPHY - "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe" by David I. Kertzer (Random House)
POETRY - "Digest" by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)
GENERAL NONFICTION - "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt)
MUSIC - "Anthracite Fields" by Julia Wolfe (G. Schirmer, Inc.)
(source- www.pulitzer.org)


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