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Pulitzer Prize Luncheon underlines vitality of journalism

While America’s news media face serious economic problems and other challenges, the work of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners show that the best of journalism is “as vital as ever,” said Anders Gyllenhaal, the chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, at the 2009 Awards Luncheon at Columbia University.

Gyllenhaal (left), executive editor of The Miami Herald and an advocate of newsroom experimentation and online journalism, will lead the Board in 2009-2010.

Lee Bollinger (right), president of Columbia University and a Pulitzer Board member, presented the prizes at the luncheon attended by more than 250.

2009 Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists

All the winners and finalists in journalism, books, drama and music. See prizewinning photos, cartoons, bios and photos of winners, and links to prizewinning stories.

Alexandra Berzon, Michael Kelley and Brian Greenspun, of the Las Vegas Sun, accept the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service from Columbia University President, Lee Bollinger (left).

Facts and figures about the 2009 prizes (pdf)


Updated entry form for the 2010 letters, drama and music Prizes is now online

Updated entry materials for the letters (books), drama and music competitions are now available on the How to Enter page. June 15, 2009 is the first deadline for books published in the United States during 2009. October 15, 2009 is the final deadline for all books published in 2009. The deadline for drama and music is December 31, 2009.

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Slide show of 2009 Journalism Jurors in action

On March 2, 3 and 4, 77 jurors from across America assembled at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism to judge 1,028 entries in the Journalism competition and nominate three finalists in each of 14 categories. A snowstorm hit the night before opening day but jurors were undeterred.

Juror Mizell Stewart III reads an entry.



Pulitzer Prizewinners in the News

Links to stories about the 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners including some about how the winners found out they had won. Also, interesting recent stories on past Pulitzer winners.

Alexandra Berzon (left), of the Las Vegas Sun and Mark Mahoney (right), of the Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y., find out about their Pulitzer wins.