The decision to allow magazines to enter two prize categories followed the Pulitzer Prize Board’s recognition that many exemplars of the form have newly entered the realm of daily and weekly journalism. On the question of partnerships, the Board eased its rules in light of the growing number of joint journalistic projects being undertaken by newsrooms, and the value of these partnerships to high quality journalism.

A $1.5-million national initiative to ignite broad engagement with the journalistic, literary and artistic values represented by the Pulitzer Prizes during their Centennial year.

Organizations participating in the Pulitzer Centennial Marquee Project include the Newseum; The Poynter Institute; The Dallas Morning News with the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum; the Los Angeles Times with USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism; and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.