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...story through his denials of the affair and of fathering a child out of wedlock, the Enquirer is under consideration for a Pulitzer Prize, and it has support from other journalists. The Enquirer conducted stakeouts, paid informants and ran pieces based entirely...
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Columbus Dispatch
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Columbia University announced Monday that POLITICO Executive Editor Jim VandeHei has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
VandeHei , who co-founded POLITICO in early 2007, becomes the first member of the Pulitzer Board from a primarily online
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Good news to all those Woodward and Bernstein bloggers: the Pulitzer Prize committee has now opened up the requirements for winning an award in journalism to make online reporters eligible for the prestigious honor.
Now "entries for journalism awards
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Playbill.comA Fractured Family Hits the RoadPlaybill.comTracy Letts talks about the roots of his August: Osage County, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play now on national tour. ...Parsons, Cochran, George, Still, Torn and More Launch August ...Playbill.comall 2 news articles »
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LeBron James recounts his high school dazeSan Jose Mercury NewsThe Pulitzer Prize winner and the guy who once got flummoxed reading a Dr. Seuss book to kids? Yeah, they probably alternated chapters. ...and more »
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BayNewserHow a Pulitzer Winner Prepared for a Chron BuyoutBayNewserIn 1987, Kim Komenich won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography for his coverage of the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. In 2007, he was tapped for a buyout ...Bravo, Kim KomenichPoynter.orgall 2 news articles »
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PlaybillArtsPasadena Playhouse announces lineup for 2010 seasonLos Angeles TimesA new musical from Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz and a new play from Frank Tangredi will topline the Pasadena Playhouse's 2010 season, which will be ...Pasadena Playhouse Plans Havana and Pre-Broadway Run of Fallen AngelsPlaybillArtsFrank Wildhorn and Nilo Cruz' Havana Part of Pasadena Playhouse SeasonTheaterMania.comall 5 news articles »
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"Theater Talk" to Celebrate Pulitzer Prize-Winning Ruined July 31Playbill.comThe July 31 episode of "Theater Talk," the PBS talk show that offers interviews with top theatre practitioners, will spotlight the Pulitzer ...and more »
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Senior athletes still a 'Wonder' at their ageUSA TodayThat is the premise of The Wonder Years: Portraits of Athletes Who Never Slow Down, a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Rick Rickman. ...
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The Money TimesAuthor Frank McCourt's dead at 78 Roxbury resident penned Pulitzer ...Danbury News TimesHe had moved to the town a few years after his 1997 Pulitzer Prize win for "Angela's Ashes," the epic tale of woe about his impoverished Irish childhood. ...Remembering Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Frank McCourtBC Hot NewsFrank McCourt leaves behind a hopeful messageExaminer.comNew Bedford native recalls photographing Frank McCourtSouthCoastToday.comIrish Echo -Examiner.com -Danbury News Timesall 42 news articles »
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Examiner.comCoinciding with Comic Con 2009, Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize ...Examiner.comSpiegelman's books have been featured in a Museum of Modern Art exhibit and were awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. In our discussion, we will look ...Spiegelman subject of new MOCAD exhibitThe South Endall 3 news articles »
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...Prize-winning author Frank McCourt died Sunday in New York at age 78 following a battle with cancer. McCourt, a Brooklyn native, grew up in Ireland. He returned to the United States to attend New York University after serving in the U.S. Army. He was a city...
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NY1
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BBC NewsAngela's Ashes Author Frank McCourt Said to Be Near DeathPeople MagazineFrank McCourt, the Brooklyn-born, Ireland-raised author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1996 memoir Angela's Ashes, is in a hospice, ...Author Frank McCourt near deathChicago TribuneSad Breaking News: Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ...Examiner.comPulitzer-winning Litchfield County author McCourt gravely illLitchfield County TimesIrish Echo -United Press International -Belfast Telegraphall 306 news articles »
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...and African American literature," said Rosalind Oliphant, a festival co-organizer. "We never imagined we'd be hosting a Pulitzer Prize winner," Oliphant said. "We're absolutely elated." Oliphant once owned a black bookstore on Nueces Street and helped...
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Austin American-Statesman
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...has extended its run several times. Established in 1917 and named after American newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which comes with a cash award of $10,000, is awarded annually to, “a distinguished play by an American author,...
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The Stage
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...Monday, Columbia University announced Steve Reich as the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his "Double Sextet" - blandly described as "a major work that displays an ability to channel an initial burst of energy into a large-scale musical event,...
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The Stranger
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...be a dream whether we both were a dream in which neither of us moved Maui resident William S. Merwin has won another Pulitzer Prize in poetry, this time for his recent collection titled "The Shadow of Sirius." Merwin, whose writing career can be traced to...
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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...YORK -- Atlanta author and journalist Douglas A. Blackmon won the Pulitzer Prize Monday for general nonfiction for "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II". Blackmon is the Atlanta bureau chief of...
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WSB-TV Atlanta
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...reporting, but in the end, the Tribune helped engage more people within our community on the topic.’’ The Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in journalism, for a five-part series that exposed how police protection suffered as Sheriff...
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East Valley Tribune
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...Down a little bit from last year but just by a small amount. But ask the people who know what it takes to win a Pulitzer Prize and a different story emerges. Tom Fiedler -- who's now the dean at Boston University's College of Communication -- won two, while...
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American Public Media
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...in mind (and with a generous donation from Pulitzer’s estate in hand), both the Columbia School of Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize came into being. In the 90 or so years since then, the prize committee has successfully recognized many exemplary books, newspaper...
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Pajamas Media
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...who was the first African American to win the prize. Hass is the third current member of the UC-Berkeley faculty to win a Pulitzer Prize. The others are Leon Litwack, a professor emeritus of history, who received the Pulitzer Prize for U.S. History in 1980,...
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KTVU
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...Chicago playwright Tracy Letts won the Pulitzer Prize for drama on Monday for “August: Osage County,” cementing his position among the top tier of living American playwrights and making an inarguable case that “August,” which premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre...
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PopMatters
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...UK Dylan is the first rock musician to be receive a Pulitzer Prize Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture". The special music award recognised the 66-year-old's "lyrical...
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BBC News
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...violinist who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters." The Pulitzer prize for distinguished commentary went to Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post for his "insightful columns that explore the...
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Xinhua
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...a shred of evidence to support the accusation of a presidential “lie.” Any conservative student who aspires to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist should really try another line of work. Here’s the list since George Will won in 1977 and William Safire won...
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Newsbusters
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...Wall Street Journal won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for its probe into backdated stock options for business executives that led to investigations and dismissals in corporate America. The Journal was one of several winners of the...
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Mail & Guardian Online
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The Journal was one of several winners of the 91st annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music whose work illustrates journalism's watchdog role, the Pulitzer board said.
The prizes, announced at Columbia University, come with a $
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NEWS.com.au
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... The Journal was one of several winners of the 91st annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music whose work illustrates journalism's watchdog role, the Pulitzer board said. The prizes, announced at Columbia University, come with a $US10,000...
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PerthNow
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...statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws. The Wall Street Journal staff has won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for it work on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from...
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Examiner.com
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NEW YORK — The Pulitzer Prize will allow newspapers to submit video and interactive graphics as part of their entries for the top award in American print journalism, prize officials announced Monday.
Allowing more online material "was the next logical
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Rocky Mount Telegram
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has been staff film critic at the Democrat and Chronicle for nearly 28 years. He began reviewing films here in 1977 -- starting with the original Star Wars. In 1987, Garner was appointed chief film critic of Gannett News Service, and his writing
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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With a series of forceful speeches on terrorism and a dramatic announcement that he is sending top-tier terrorism suspects to the Guantanamo Bay prison, President Bush this week has demonstrated anew the power of even a weakened commander in chief to
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The Washington Post
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Home » blogs » Noel Sheppard's blog Pulitzer Prize Winner Calls For Harsher Words to be Used Against President Bush Posted by Noel Sheppard on September 4, 2006 - 10:46. One of the marvelous hypocrisies regularly exhibited by the liberal media is their
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« Rothenberg Predicts Dem Takeover Of House… Friday, September 1st, 2006 The MinuteMan Swings For The Bleachers (And Connects!) Tom Maguire puts the WaPo PlameGate editorial in perspective by looking at how some of the actual participants summed up
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Decision '08
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NEW YORK: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Interpreter of Maladies has been selected for a major book celebration programme in Chicago. Lahiri’s collection of nine short stories has been named for the ‘One Book, One Chicago’
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DNA India
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Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories about Bengali immigrants struggling to put down roots in America, will be the featured book in Round 11 of “One Book, One Chicago.”
“It’s a tremendous honor.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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Ralph Schoenstein, a humorist who was a commentator on National Public
Radio's "All Things Considered," a prolific contributor to magazines and
newspapers, the author of 18 books, and a ghostwriter whose works included Bill
Cosby's "Fatherhood,"
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San Francisco Chronicle
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When Chicago Tribune correspondent Paul Salopek won his second Pulitzer Prize, he was not around to hear the applause in his newsroom. He was en route that day in April 2001 from Sierra Leone to South Africa - another journey in a nomadic, illustrious
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Baltimore Sun
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Salopek is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner An American journalist, arrested earlier this month in the Darfur region of Sudan, has been charged with spying by the Sudanese authorities. Paul Salopek, a Pulitzer Prize winner from the Chicago Tribune, was
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BBC News
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Statement From National Geographic On Paul Salopek WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Paul Salopek, who was traveling in
Africa to report on the culture and history of the Sahel for National
Geographic magazine, was detained by Sudanese authorities
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PR Newswire
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JACKSON, Miss. - Five hours of color footage of writer Eudora Welty has been found in the National Endowment for the Arts media archives and returned to Mississippi.
"This is the only known 60 millimeter film of Eudora Welty reading and discussing her
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Santa Maria Times
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Rosenthal, whose black and white picture taken on the Japanese island became a symbol of U.S. determination to take back the Pacific rock by rock, died on Sunday at an assisted living centre in Novato, California, north of San Francisco, his family
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Reuters.co.uk
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(08-20) 23:27 PDT -- Retired Chronicle photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize and international acclaim for his soul-stirring picture of the World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima, died Sunday in Novato.
Rosenthal, 94
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There's a magic trick in ``The Illusionist" and it's not one of the feats of prestidigitation performed onstage by Edward Norton. It's that a movie this old hat, with this motley a cast, should work as well as it does. Swankly produced and
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Boston Globe
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Palestinians may be the big winners in Lebanon.
Plagues. Food poisoning. Earthquakes. Now snakes! What will God think of next?
Why Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and AOL are tanking.
Why Beinart has to accept that punditry has
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Slate
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has been staff film critic at the Democrat and Chronicle for nearly 28 years. He began reviewing films here in 1977 -- starting with the original Star Wars. In 1987, Garner was appointed chief film critic of Gannett News Service, and his writing
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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has been staff film critic at the Democrat and Chronicle for nearly 28 years. He began reviewing films here in 1977 -- starting with the original Star Wars. In 1987, Garner was appointed chief film critic of Gannett News Service, and his writing
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060728/LIVING0107/607280423/1032/RSS05
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has been staff film critic at the Democrat and Chronicle for nearly 28 years. He began reviewing films here in 1977 -- starting with the original Star Wars. In 1987, Garner was appointed chief film critic of Gannett News Service, and his writing
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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