Pulitzer News

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The Pulitzer Prize Board has decided to postpone the 2021 award winners’ announcement. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 19, 2021, the Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music now will be announced on Friday, June 11, 2021 at 1 p.m.

Find inspiration in the current class of Pulitzer winners in Journalism, and learn how to enter. The deadline to submit is January 25, 2021.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam" has died at age 84.

For 2021, the number of items allowed per entry has decreased, and definitions of the Editorial Cartooning and Local Reporting categories have been updated.

The Pulitzer Board has accepted the New York Times’ withdrawal of its 2019 Pulitzer Finalist in International Reporting.

Lytle Hernández, a professor of History, African American Studies and Urban Planning at UCLA, and Merida, a senior vice president at ESPN and editor-in-chief of The Undefeated, have been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.

The entry site will close on December 31, and digital submissions now are permitted in both categories due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A leading reporter and editor of his generation, Topping served as Pulitzer Prize Administrator from 1993 to 2002.

Following 29 years at the Miami Herald, Aminda (Mindy) Marqués González will join Simon & Schuster's adult trade publishing imprint as vice president and executive editor.