E-mail this page2010 Pulitzer Prizewinners will be announced April 12
The 2010 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists in all categories will be announced on April 12, 2010 at 3 p.m. Eastern daylight time. Finalists are not announced in advance. Winners' names, photos and bios will be posted on this Website at 3 p.m., along with all winning photographs and cartoons. Links to winning news stories will also be provided where available. The 2010 Prizes are awarded for work published, produced or premiered in 2009.
Pulitzer Prize Board elects new member
Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of Politico, a new media company covering national politics and governance, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board. VandeHei is the first representative of a primarily online news organization to serve on the Pulitzer Board.
Vanity Fair recently named VandeHei among the 100 most powerful Information Age thinkers for helping create the “model for the new media success story."
Pulitzer Prize Board eases online-only eligibility rules
The eligibility rules for the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism have been revised, opening the door wider to entries from text-based online-only newspapers and news sites.
Updated entry forms and guidelines for the 2010 journalism competition are now available on our How to enter page.
Pulitzer luncheon outlines 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.
- Video of luncheon remarks and presentation of prizes
- Text of Gyllenhaal speech
- Winners group photo
- Luncheon slide show
2009 Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists
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).
View all the 2009 winners and finalists in journalism, books, drama and music. See prizewinning photos, cartoons, bios and photos of winners, and links to prizewinning stories.
Facts and figures about the
2009 prizes (pdf)
Juror Mizell Stewart III reads an entry.
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.
