Pulitzer Prizes

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Pulitzer Prizes are annual American awards for excellence in journalism, literature, and musical composition.

Administered by Columbia University since 1917, they carry significant prestige—winning one can transform a career or cement a reputation: Her reporting on the opioid crisis won a Pulitzer.

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