For 2021, the number of items allowed per entry has decreased, and definitions of the Editorial Cartooning and Local Reporting categories have been updated.
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.
Board Addresses Questions about 2020 Prize in Commentary
The 2016 Prize winner in Fiction and professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board
Veteran Deputy Administrator Edward Kliment will serve as interim administrator as Prize Board launches nationwide search for Canedy’s successor.
The Pulitzer Prize Board is deeply disturbed by reports of journalists being harassed and assaulted by some law enforcement officers as news organizations report on the police killing of George Floyd and the resulting national protests and civil unrest.
In celebration of the 104th class of Pulitzer Prize winners, watch Canedy virtually ring the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués González, president, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald, have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Read coverage of the opera that received the 2019 Music Prize, cited by the Pulitzer Prize Board as "a courageous [...] work, marked by powerful vocal writing and sensitive orchestration."
Read and see reactions to the Prize announcement, which streamed via video on May 4.
