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Pulitzer Prize: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (1587 words) |
 | The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. They have been awarded each May since 1917 on the recommendation of an advisory board comprising journalists, the president of the university, with the dean of the graduate school of journalism as secretary. |
| Pulitzer Prize for Photography, was divided in 1968 into Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and a spot news category, which became the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. |
| Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, became the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. |
| Joseph Pulitzer (1158 words) |
| Pulitzer was the founder of the Pulitzer Prizes. |
| Joseph Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, as the eldest son of Hungarian Jews. |
| In the journalism the Prizes were awarded in the 1920s for exposing the practices of the Ku Klux Klan, revealing the dehumanizing prison conditions and exploring the problems of labor during a national coal strike. |
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