Eight students from Parkland, Florida, who entered their coverage of a shooting inside their school were recognized at the 2019 Pulitzer awards ceremony by Prize Administrator Dana Canedy.
The centenarian and Columbia graduate juxtaposed a Victorian sense of social obligation against the greatest events of the 20th century.
A redesigned entry site features a questionnaire about entrants' work, and the ability for Drama and Music entrants to submit materials online.
International Reporting winners Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been freed after spending 511 days in prison for their contributions to Reuters' 2019 Pulitzer-winning portfolio.
The New York Stock Exchange welcomed Canedy onto the trading floor to ring the opening bell on Wall Street on Tuesday, May 7, 2019.
Members of the 2019 International Reporting team of winners, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested in December 2017 after helping expose a massacre of 10 Muslim men.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student newspaper The Eagle Eye submitted two issues for Pulitzer consideration this year, culminating in an acknowledgement from Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy at the announcement.
Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy announced the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University's School of Journalism on Monday, April 15. Watch video of the announcement and read the full list of winners.
In his decades-long career, the two-time Poetry winner remained committed to world literature, ecology and pacifism.
