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Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, by Ernest Taylor Pyle

For distinguished war correspondence during the year 1943.

The Jury

Eleanor Carroll(Chair)

William O. Trapp

Winners in Correspondence

Carlos P. Romulo

For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.

Group Award

In place of an individual Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence, the Trustees approved the recommendation of the Advisory Board that a bronze plaque or scroll be designed and executed to recognize and symbolize the public services and the individual achievements of American news reporters in the war zones of Europe, Asia and Africa from the beginning of the present war.

1944 Prize Winners

Byron Price

For the creation and administration of the newspaper and radio codes.
At the same time, the members of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Journalism deplore certain acts and policies of Army and Navy censorship in the handling of news at the source, and for the unreasonable suppression of information to which the American people are entitled.