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1974 Pulitzer Prize Board
Board lander photo caption

front row, left to right: J. Pulitzer, W. McGill, J. Hohenberg; back row, left to right: P. Day, E. Patterson, J. Reston, J. Cowles, L. Hills, N. Noyes, S. Meyer, R. Donovan, T. Winship, V. Royster (absent from photo: B. Bradlee)

Board Lander Sub Title
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr, chair; John Hohenberg, administrator

Benjamin Bradlee

Job title
executive editor
First name
Benjamin
Last name
Bradlee

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Ben Bradlee’s Charmed, Charming Life

By David Carr

October 22, 2014

Civilians, people who don’t think the toppling of a sitting American president with newspaper articles is one of humankind’s lasting achievements, will read encomiums to Ben Bradlee like this one and wonder: What’s the big deal?

Employer
The Washington Post
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Ordering weight
1

Newsday

Citation
For its definitive report on the illicit narcotic traffic in the United States and abroad, entitled, "The Heroin Trail."
Tags: 1974
Location
Garden City, NY
Categories: Public Service
Publication
Newsday

James R. Polk

Citation
For his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972.
Tags: 1974
Categories: National Reporting
Publication
Washington Star-News

Jack White

Citation
For his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971.
Tags: 1974
Categories: National Reporting
Publication
Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin

Donald Martino

Citation
A chamber music piece commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation and first performed May 15, 1973 at Alice Tully Hall, New York City, by Speculum Musicae.
Tags: 1974
Categories: Music
Publication
Notturno