Pulitzers
Top press prizes
Pulitzers are the Pulitzer Prizes, annual awards for distinguished achievement in American journalism, literature, and musical composition.
The prizes carry significant prestige, and winning one marks a career milestone: She won two Pulitzers for her investigative reporting.
The informal plural often appears in discussions of a journalist's or author's credentials.
Conveying documented information
- newspaperPrinted periodical of current events
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
- featureDistinguishing quality or element
breaking · photography · criticism · commentary · correspondent · newsroom · byline · deadline
News gathering and dissemination
- prizeReward for winning
- winnerOne who prevails
- finalistLast-round participant
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
recognition · ceremony · medal · citation · committee · nomination · achievement · excellence
Imagined narrative work
- novelNew and unusual
- biographyWritten life account
- historyRecord of past events
- poetryMetrical literary composition
nonfiction · memoir · author · book · narrative · playwright · manuscript · prose
America personified, or its namesakes
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- bequestGift left by will
- traditionCustom passed through generations
centennial · anniversary · establishment · philanthropy · legacy · institution · trustee · mission
Arranged elements forming whole
- classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
- orchestralFor a symphony ensemble
- premiereFirst public performance
- scoreNumerical standing in competition
symphony · chamber · opera · concert · commissioned · contemporary · recording · ensemble
reporting
Conveying documented information
- newspaperPrinted periodical of current events
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
feature · breaking · photography · criticism · commentary · correspondent · newsroom · byline · deadline · scoop
journalism
News gathering and dissemination
honor · recognition · ceremony · medal · citation · committee · nomination · achievement · excellence · distinguished
fiction
Imagined narrative work
poetry · nonfiction · memoir · author · book · narrative · playwright · manuscript · prose · storytelling
Columbia
America personified, or its namesakes
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- bequestGift left by will
tradition · centennial · anniversary · establishment · philanthropy · legacy · institution · trustee · mission · standard
composition
Arranged elements forming whole
- classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
- orchestralFor a symphony ensemble
- premiereFirst public performance
score · symphony · chamber · opera · concert · commissioned · contemporary · recording · ensemble · debut
- Journalism AwardsPeabody Award, Peabody
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- Famous FamiliesKennedys, Rothschilds, Bushes, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts
PulitzersRazzies
Worst-movie award ceremony
obscurity · anonymity · unpublished manuscripts · slush pile · pans
PulitzersNobel Prize in Literature
Annual award for outstanding writing
Nobels · Oscars · Grammys · Emmys · Tony Awards
- Pulitzer PrizesAwards for journalism excellence
- Pulitzer winnerTop journalism or arts recipient
- Joseph Pulitzer