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1991 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: R. Maynard, J. Konner, J. Hoge, R. Christopher, M. Sovern, P. Kann; back row, left to right: M. Yarbrough, B. Osborne, G. Overholser, S. Bok, W. Rugaber, D. Laventhol, J. Risser, H. Vendler, C. Sitton, M. Greenfield, R. Baker, M. Gartner (absent from photo: Eugene Roberts)

Board Lander Sub Title
James F. Hoge, chair; Robert C. Christopher, secretary

James V. Risser

Job title
director, John S. Knight Fellowships
First name
James V.
Last name
Risser
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Years
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998

Jim Risser has distinguished himself as an investigative reporter, an environmental reporter and as a leader in efforts to improve the quality of modern journalism.

Employer
Stanford University
Photo
James V. Risser
Ordering weight
1

Staff

Citation
For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
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Categories: Spot News Reporting
Publication
The Miami Herald

Greg Marinovich

Citation
For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.
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Categories: Spot News Photography
Publication
Associated Press

Des Moines Register

Citation
For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped --which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.
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Categories: Public Service
Publication
Des Moines Register

Shulamit Ran

Citation
Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on October 19, 1990.
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Categories: Music
Publication
Symphony

Caryle Murphy

Citation
For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities.
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Categories: International Reporting
Publication
The Washington Post
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