This afternoon, the 2014 winners of the Pultizer Prize were announced here at Columbia University in Pulitzer Hall.
Noted winners include the journalists who led the exposure of the U.S. government secret surveillance aided by Edward Snowden. Boston Globe grabbed an award for their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing. Also, the international reporting by Reuters was acknowledged in their effort to report on the Muslim minority prosecuted in Myanmar.
JOURNALISM:
Public Service: The Guardian US and The Washington Post
Breaking News Reporting: The Boston Globe staff
Investigative Reporting: Chris Hamby of The Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
Explanatory Reporting: Eli Saslow of The Washington Post
Local Reporting: Will Hobson and Michael LaForgia of the Tampa Bay Times
National Reporting: David Philipps of The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo.
International Reporting: Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall of Reuters
Feature Writing: No award
Commentary: Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press
Criticism: Inga Saffron of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Editorial Writing: Editorial staff of The Oregonian, Portland
Editorial Cartooning: Kevin Siers of The Charlotte Observer
Breaking News Photography: Tyler Hicks of The New York Times
Feature Photography: Josh Haner of The New York Times
LETTERS AND DRAMA
Fiction: “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)
Drama: “The Flick” by Annie Baker
History: “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832” by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton)
Biography: “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Poetry: “3 Sections” by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction: “Toms River”: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin (Bantam Books)
MUSIC
“Become Ocean” by John Luther Adams, premiered on June 20, 2013, by the Seattle Symphony (Taiga Press/Theodore Front Musical Literature)
Blast from the past via Wikimedia Commons
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@Alum Vijay Seshadri has a Columbia MFA in writing and was a Ph.D. student in MESAAS (which was MEALAC at the time). I don’t know if any of the other winners are alums.
@BC '14 Annie Baker is teaching the senior thesis in playwriting in the Barnard/Columbia theatre department right now!
@Anonymous Tyler Hicks *SWOON*