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Pulitzer Prize

American  

noun

  1. one of a group of annual prizes in journalism, literature, music, etc., established by Joseph Pulitzer: administered by Columbia University; first awarded 1917.


Pulitzer prize British  

noun

  1. one of a group of prizes established by Joseph Pulitzer and awarded yearly since 1917 for excellence in American journalism, literature, and music

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Becky was part of the Journal team that won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for coverage of Musk.

From The Wall Street Journal

Schindler has also identified dozens of similar sites across the United States, including one in Florida that inspired Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning 2020 novel "The Nickel Boys."

From Barron's

A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2016 for reporting on the abortive Turkish coup, his work has won a string of international awards.

From The Wall Street Journal

She shared the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for exposing the University of Southern California’s mishandling of a troubled campus gynecologist, reporting that led to $1.1 billion in compensation for female students and alumnae, the largest such settlement in higher education history.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mark was part of a small team of Journal reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2007, for a series exposing widespread abuses in the compensation of corporate executives, through improper backdating of employee stock options.

From The Wall Street Journal