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Robert Blau and Steven Hahn, co-chairs; Dana Canedy, administrator

Announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes

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Columbia University today announces the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. The Board also announces the election of its two co-chairs: Stephen Engelberg, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, President, Publisher and Executive Editor, Miami Herald.

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Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy's 2020 Announcement Remarks

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The following remarks were delivered in New York, N.Y., by Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy as part of the announcement of the 2020 Prize winners in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music on May 4, 2020.

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Ben Taub of The New Yorker

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For a devastating account of a man who was kidnapped, tortured and deprived of his liberty for more than a decade at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, blending on-the-ground reporting and lyrical prose to offer a nuanced perspective on America's wider war on terror.
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Ida B. Wells

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For her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching. The citation comes with a bequest by the Pulitzer Prize Board of at least $50,000 in support of her mission. The grant was given to the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting (co-founded by 2020 Commentary winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ron Nixon, 2022 Local Reporting winner Corey Johnson and Topher Sanders in 2015), which in turn decided to contribute it to the Ida B. Wells Scholarship Fund at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism of the City University of New York.
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Categories: Special Citations and Awards

Greg Grandin

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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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A sweeping and beautifully written book that probes the American myth of boundless expansion and provides a compelling context for thinking about the current political moment (Moved by the Board to the General Nonfiction category, where it was also entered.)
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Metropolitan Books
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Categories: History

Pulitzer Prize Board Postpones Announcement of 2020 Awards

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The Pulitzer Prize Board has decided to postpone the 2020 award winners’ announcement. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2020, the Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music now will be announced on Monday, May 4, 2020 at 3 p.m., streamed at Pulitzer.org.

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