The Pulitzer.org website has a nice timeline and framed pages for visitors who want to browse through almost a century of awards, including the just-announced 2007 ones. For new visitors to the site, the "Works" tab at the part of each journalism award page usually links to the full story package that won the award... a great resource for journalism students.
For visitors who don't need the timeline or portrait of Joe Pulitzer, I'm posting direct links (below) to each of this year's winners, which makes it faster to get there with a modem and easier to bookmark a particular award... such as the fiction award to Knoxville author Cormac McCarthy, or this year's history prize to two veteran journalists, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, for their book about reporters at work, "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation." Speaking of the job of reporting, I liked this quote from Brett J. Blackledge of The Birmingham News, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting: "What's remarkable about this award is it basically affirms what we do
every day. There's nothing magical about this. It's
98 percent of the stuff we do every day. It's extraordinary, yet very
ordinary."
Blackledge's story was a 14-month investigation of corruption and nepotism in Alabama's two-year college system. (I hope the Birmingham News al.com's request for your age and zip code doesn't keep students from looking at the stories. For now, maybe the site can remove it for Pulitzer-focused visitors. Direct-access copies should be posted at the Pulitzer.org site eventually.) Blackledge was also nominated for the Public Service award. One other point to note: Many of the traditional "newspaper" citations now mention that they are given for the news organizations' work in print and online, including the Los Angeles Times Altered Oceans series.
PUBLIC SERVICE: The Wall Street Journal BREAKING NEWS REPORTING: The Staff of The Oregonian, Portland INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Brett Blackledge of The Birmingham (Ala.) News EXPLANATORY REPORTING: Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times LOCAL REPORTING: Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald NATIONAL REPORTING: Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: The Wall Street Journal Staff FEATURE WRITING: Andrea Elliott of The New York Times COMMENTARY: Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution CRITICISM: Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly EDITORIAL WRITING: Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of the New York Daily News EDITORIAL CARTOONING: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Long Island, NY BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: Oded Balilty of the Associated Press FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: Renee C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee
FICTION: The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) DRAMA: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire HISTORY: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf) BIOGRAPHY: The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate (Doubleday) POETRY: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin) GENERAL NONFICTION: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) MUSIC: Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman
SPECIAL CITATIONS: Ray Bradbury and John Coltrane
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