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Earlier today, the winners of the 2012 Pulitzer Prizes were announced in Pulitzer Hall (the building formerly known as Journalism).
The late Columbia professor Manning Marable won the History prize for his biography of Malcolm X, the same prize that Columbia professor Eric Foner won last year. As expected, the AP reporters who exposed the NYPD’s possibly illegal surveillance of Muslim communities—including our own Muslim Students Association—tied for the Investigative Reporting Prize. A young alumnus, Eli Sanders (CC ’99) snagged an award in the journalism category for his feature writing in The Stranger. American literature and editorial writing got snubbed when the judging committee chose to award No Prize rather than choose from any of the nominees in either category. The Huffington Post, meanwhile, became the first blog in history to win a Pulitzer Prize.
JOURNALISM
Public Service – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Breaking News Reporting – The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News Staff
Investigative Reporting – Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of the Associated Press and Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times
Explanatory Reporting – David Kocieniewski of The New York Times
Local Reporting – Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff, Harrisburg, Penn
National Reporting – David Wood of The Huffington Post
International Reporting – Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times
Feature Writing – Eli Sanders of The Stranger, a Seattle (Wash.) weekly
Commentary – Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune
Criticism -Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe
Editorial Writing – No award
Editorial Cartooning – Matt Wuerker of POLITICO
Breaking News Photography – Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse
Feature Photography – Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post
LETTERS, DRAMA and MUSIC
Fiction – No award
Drama – “Water by the Spoonful” by Quiara Alegría Hudes
History – “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” by the late Manning Marable (Viking)
Biography – “George F. Kennan: An American Life,” by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)
Poetry – “Life on Mars” by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction – “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Company)
Music – “Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts” by Kevin Puts (Aperto Press)
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@Timothy N.Thomas Timothy N. Thomas permalink
April 19, 2012 11:15 pm
I was one of the 341..the infamous 341 authors who entered the contest. I feel like a loser not because I lost, but because of the wet blanket thrown over the whole lot of us. None of us were worthy.. It will most likey be a very long time until there is no award given in this category, so we are now refered to as the ‘infamous 341′ The story I wrote was entitled ‘Galsboro a butlers letter to the New Yorker’….I guess it sucked more than any of my friends thought, now it is infamous……………………
@Anonymous HuffPo won a Pulitzer?! Fuck me.
@Agh. Don’t worry. There’s no such thing as liberal media bias. Just like how undergraduates here who self-identify as liberal couldn’t be more excited to join and maintain the status quo.
Business as usual!
@Methinks he was referring more to the quality (shit) of 99% of the site.
@Anonymous Hand in hand, I think.
@Anonymous HuffPost has some really crappy stories and poorly written articles, but you should take a look the Beyond the Battlefield series by David Cook. These articles are some of HuffPost’s best and most moving stories.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/beyond-the-battlefield/
@Seattle Someone from The Stranger?? That’s awesome!
@Anonymous Apparently he’s a former Spec editor in chief, too.