Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is an American prize awarded for predominantly liberal journalism. There are other associated awards also called Pulitzer Prizes for other areas such as literature. In all, 21 Pulitzer Prizes are given out each year. The awards are named after Joseph Pulitzer who gave a sum of money to Columbia University after his death.
The awards are administered by the Columbia University.[1] The winners of the Pulitzer Prize are determined by The Pulitzer Prize Board.[2] They often are awarded to liberal works. For example, in 2007 the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Charles Savage for his attack on George Bush's use of signing statements.[3] In fact, over 15 years earlier George Bush's father also attached statements to bills that he signed. One of two honored finalists for the same prize was work claiming that an innocent man was subjected to the death penalty.[4]
In 1932, Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for publishing articles in the New York Times for a set of stories written in 1931 about the Soviet Union. The articles denied the Ukraine famine that killed millions at the insistence of Joseph Stalin, and misled the world about this genocide. Amid growing conservative criticism of this award and a request for independent review by the New York Times, Columbia University Russian History Professor Mark Von Hagen reviewed Duranty's work and declared, "For the sake of The New York Times' honor, they should take the prize away."[5] But the New York Times refused to relinquish the award, and the Pulitzer Prize committee refused to rescind it.
References
- ↑ The Pulitzer Prizes
- ↑ Current Board
- ↑ http://www.boston.com/news/specials/savage_signing_statements/
- ↑ This honored finalist was work by "Maurice Possley and Steve Mills of the Chicago Tribune for their investigation of a 1989 execution in Texas that strongly suggests an innocent man was killed by lethal injection." Pulitzer Prize Winners
- ↑ http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-10-22-ny-times-pulitzer_x.htm
External Links
- http://www.pulitzer.org/ Official Website
- The Pulitzer Racket, L. Brent Bozell III, Media Research Center, April 17, 2007
- The Pulitzer Prize: No Conservatives Need Apply, George Shadroui, FrontPageMagazine, April 07, 2004