Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

"More than 2,400 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made. The awards are the culmination of a year-long process that begins early in the year with the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21 categories."

Current Members of The Pulitzer Prize Board (Updated 12/06/07)

 * Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
 * Danielle Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
 * Jim Amoss, Editor, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La.
 * Amanda Bennett, Executive Editor/Enterprise, Bloomberg News
 * Joann Byrd (co-chair), Former Editor of the Editorial Page, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 * Kathleen Carroll, Executive Editor and Senior Vice President, Associated Press
 * Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, The New York Times
 * Paul Gigot, Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal
 * Donald E. Graham, Chairman, The Washington Post
 * Anders Gyllenhaal, Executive Editor, The Miami Herald
 * Jay T. Harris, Wallis Annenberg Chair, Director, Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California
 * David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University
 * Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
 * Ann Marie Lipinski, Senior Vice President and Editor, Chicago Tribune
 * Gregory L. Moore, Editor, The Denver Post
 * Richard Oppel, Editor, Austin American-Statesman
 * Mike Pride (co-chair), Editor, Concord (N.H.) Monitor
 * Paul Tash, Editor, CEO, and Chairman, St. Petersburg Times
 * Sig Gissler, Administrator, Graduate School of Journalism

International Reporting

 * 1980 	Joel Brinkley, reporter and Jay Mather, photographer of Louisville Courier-Journal - For stories from Cambodia.
 * 1981 	Shirley Christian of Miami Herald - For her dispatches from Central America.
 * 1982 	John Darnton of New York Times - For his reporting from Poland.
 * 1983 	Thomas L. Friedman and Loren Jenkins of New York Times and Washington Post (respectively) - For their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath.
 * 1984 	Karen Elliott House of Wall Street Journal - For her extraordinary series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would confront the Reagan administration's Middle East peace plan.
 * 1985 	Josh Friedman and Dennis Bell, reporters, and Ozier Muhammad, photographer of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. - For their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa.
 * 1986 	Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey and Katherine Ellison of San Jose (CA) Mercury News - For their June 1985 series that documented massive transfers of wealth abroad by President Marcos and his associates and had a direct impact on subsequent political developments in the Philippines and the United States.
 * 1987 	Michael Parks of Los Angeles Times - For his balanced and comprehensive coverage of South Africa.
 * 1988 	Thomas L. Friedman of New York Times - For balanced and informed coverage of Israel.
 * 1989 	Bill Keller of New York Times - For resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R.
 * 1989 	Glenn Frankel of Washington Post - For sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East.
 * 1990 	Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn of New York Times - For knowledgeable reporting from China on the mass movement for democracy and its subsequent suppression.
 * 1991 	Caryle Murphy of Washington Post - For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities.
 * 1991 	Serge Schmemann of New York Times - For his coverage of the reunification of Germany.
 * 1992 	Patrick J. Sloyan of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. - For his reporting on the Persian Gulf War, conducted after the war was over, which revealed new details of American battlefield tactics and "friendly fire" incidents.
 * 1993 	John F. Burns of New York Times - For his courageous and thorough coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbarous killings in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
 * 1993 	Roy Gutman of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. - For his courageous and persistent reporting that disclosed atrocities and other human rights violations in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
 * 1994 	Dallas Morning News Team of Dallas Morning News - For its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations.
 * 1995 	Mark Fritz of Associated Press - For his reporting on the ethnic violence and slaughter in Rwanda.
 * 1996 	David Rohde of Christian Science Monitor - For his persistent on-site reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.
 * 1997 	John F. Burns of New York Times - For his courageous and insightful coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban.
 * 1998 	Staff of New York Times - For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico.
 * 1999 	Staff of Wall Street Journal - For its in-depth, analytical coverage of the Russian financial crisis.
 * 2000 	Mark Schoofs of Village Voice - For his provocative and enlightening series on the AIDS crisis in Africa.
 * 2001 	Paul Salopek of Chicago Tribune - For his reporting on the political strife and disease epidemics ravaging Africa, witnessed firsthand as he traveled, sometimes by canoe, through rebel-controlled regions of the Congo.
 * 2001 	Ian Johnson of Wall Street Journal - For his revealing stories about victims of the Chinese government's often brutal suppression of the Falun Gong movement and the implications of that campaign for the future.
 * 2002 	Barry Bearak of New York Times - For his deeply affecting and illuminating coverage of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan.
 * 2003 	Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan of Washington Post - For their exposure of horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people.
 * 2004 	Anthony Shadid of Washington Post - For his extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended.
 * 2005 	Kim Murphy of Los Angeles Times - For her eloquent, wide ranging coverage of Russia's struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work.
 * 2005 	Dele Olojede of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. - For his fresh, haunting look at Rwanda a decade after rape and genocidal slaughter had ravaged the Tutsi tribe.
 * 2006 	Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley of New York Times - For their ambitious stories on ragged justice in China as the booming nation's legal system evolves.
 * 2007 	Staff of Wall Street Journal - For its sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution.

National Reporting

 * 2007, Charlie Savage, for his reporting on Bush administration use of Executive Orders, Boston Globe

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