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The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence. It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International. Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International was a Pulitzer Prize begun in 1942, but was replaced five years later with the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. ...
1949: Price Day, Baltimore Sun, for his series of 12 articles entitled, "Experiment in Freedom: India and Its First Year of Independence."
1950: Edmund Stevens, Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored."
1954: Jim G. Lucas, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent.
1955:Harrison E. Salisbury, New York Times, for his distinguished series of articles, "Russia Re-Viewed," based on his six years as a Times correspondent in Russia. The perceptive and well-written Salisbury articles made a valuable contribution to American understanding of what is going on inside Russia. This was principally due to the writer's wide range of subject matter and depth of background plus a number of illuminating photographs which he took.
1957:Russell Jones, United Press, for his excellent and sustained coverage of the Hungarian revolt against Communist domination, during which he worked at great personal risk within Russian-held Budapest and gave front-line eyewitness reports of the ruthless Soviet repression of the Hungarian people.
1958: Staff of the New York Times, for its distinguished coverage of foreign news, which was characterized by admirable initiative, continuity and high quality during the year.
1959: Joseph Martin and Philip Santora, New York Daily News, for their exclusive series of articles disclosing the brutality of the Batista government in Cuba long before its downfall and forecasting the triumph of the revolutionary party led by Fidel Castro.
1960:A.M. Rosenthal, New York Times, for his perceptive and authoritative reporting from Poland. Mr. Rosenthal's subsequent expulsion from the country was attributed by Polish government spokesmen to the depth his reporting into Polish affairs, there being no accusation of false reporting.
1961: Lynn Heinzerling, Associated Press, for his reporting under extraordinarily difficult conditions of the early stages of the Congo crisis and his keen analysis of events in other parts of Africa.
1962:Walter Lippmann, New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, for his 1961 interview with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, as illustrative of Lippmann's long and distinguished contribution to American journalism.
1963: Hal Hendrix, Miami News, for his persistent reporting which revealed, at an early stage, that the Soviet Union was installing missile launching pads in Cuba and sending in large numbers of MIG-21 aircraft.
1965: J. A. Livingston, Philadelphia Bulletin, for his reports on the growth of economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites and his analysis of their desire for a resumption of trade with the West.
1972: Peter R. Kann, Wall Street Journal, for his coverage of the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.
1973: Max Frankel, New York Times, for his coverage of President Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
1974: Hedrick Smith, New York Times, for his coverage of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe in 1973.
1975: William Mullen, reporter, and Ovie Carter, photographer, Chicago Tribune, for their coverage of famine in Africa and India.
1976:Sydney H. Schanberg, New York Times, for his coverage of the Communist takeover in Cambodia, carried out at great risk when he elected to stay at his post after the fall of Phnom Penh.
1984: Karen Elliott House, Wall Street Journal, for her extraordinary series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would confront the Reagan administration's Middle East peace plan.
1985: Josh Friedman and Dennis Bell, reporters, and Ozier Muhammad, photographer, Newsday, for their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa.
1986: Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey and Katherine Ellison, San Jose Mercury News, for their June 1985 series that documented massive transfers of wealth abroad by President Marcos and his associates and had a direct impact on subsequent political developments in the Philippines and the United States.
1989: Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, for sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East.
1990:Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn, New York Times, for knowledgeable reporting from China on the mass movement for democracy and its subsequent suppression.
1991: Caryle Murphy, Washington Post, for her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities.
1992: Patrick J. Sloyan, Newsday, for his reporting on the Persian Gulf War, conducted after the war was over, which revealed new details of American battlefield tactics and friendly fire incidents.
1993: Roy Gutman, Newsday, for his courageous and persistent reporting that disclosed atrocities and other human rights violations in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1994: Staff of The Dallas Morning News, for its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations.
1998: Staff of the New York Times, for its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico.
1999: Staff of the Wall Street Journal, for its in-depth, analytical coverage of the Russian financial crisis.
2000: Mark Schoofs, Village Voice, for his provocative and enlightening series on the AIDS crisis in Africa.
2001: Paul Salopek, Chicago Tribune, for his reporting on the political strife and disease epidemics ravaging Africa, witnessed firsthand as he traveled, sometimes by canoe, through rebel-controlled regions of the Congo.
2001: Ian Johnson, Wall Street Journal, for his revealing stories about victims of the Chinese government's often brutal suppression of the Falun Gong movement and the implications of that campaign for the future.
2002: Barry Bearak, New York Times, for his deeply affecting and illuminating coverage of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan.
2003: Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, Washington Post, for their exposure of horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people.
2004:Anthony Shadid, Washington Post, for his extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended.
The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917 on the recommendation of the PulitzerPrize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university.
PulitzerPrize for Telegraphic Reporting - International, became the PulitzerPrize for InternationalReporting.
PulitzerPrize for the Novel, became the PulitzerPrize for Fiction.
The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
The very first PulitzerPrizes were awarded on June 4, 1917.
For a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear presentation.
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