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Pulitzer Prize

Kabul-based AFP photographer Massoud Hossaini (R) receives his Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography from Gregory L. Moore (L), Co-Chairman of the Pulitzer Foundation Board at Colombia University in New York, May 21, 2012.

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  • Schram: Can Obama, Romney take high road?

    children together." Then "DENIED" was stamped across these rights, in big red letters.But PolitiFact.com , the nonpartisan Pulitzer Prize -winning site headed by the Tampa Bay Times' Washington bureau chief, Bill Adair, did the journalistic due diligence that   Read more »

  • Horst Faas, AP combat photographer, dies at 79

    of telling photos -- South Vietnam's soldiers fighting and its civilians struggling to survive amid the maelstrom.Faas, a Pulitzer Prize -winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's   Read more »

  • Guthrie's 50th season mix of classic, contemporary

    its 50th season with a new work by playwright Christopher Hampton , a production of a Eugene O'Neill classic and a Pulitzer Prize -winning drama.Guthrie Director Joe Dowling says that rather than dwelling in a nostalgic haze, "we're looking at contemporary   Read more »

  • AP wins Pulitzer for stories on NYPD spying

    Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting Monday for documenting the New York Police Department 's spying on Muslims, while The Philadelphia Inquirer was honored in the public service category for its examination of violence in the   Read more »

  • Pulitzer winner Anthony Shadid dies in Syria

    Shadid , a veteran foreign correspondent for The New York Times and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize , died of an apparent asthma attack while covering the unrest in Syria, officials at the newspaper said last night. He was 43."Anthony was one of our   Read more »

About Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize, pronounced /ˈpʊlɨtsɚ/ PULL-it-sər, is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements and musical composition. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Ironically, Pulitzer along with William Hearst was one of the originators of yellow journalism.

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