Read more Pulitzer Prize stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3390/pulitzer-prize.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:12:14 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70394/times-columnist-william-safire-dead-at-79.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist William Safire died today outside Washington, the paper reports. He was 79 and suffered from cancer. A onetime speechwriter for Richard Nixon, Safire, a self-described "libertarian conservative," used his background as a reporter and love for English usage to punch up his op-ed column,...http://www.newser.com/story/70394/times-columnist-william-safire-dead-at-79.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 27 Sep 2009 13:54:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56739/pulitzer-winner-was-laid-off.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPulitzer, Schmulitzer: being a terrific journalist is no insurance against unemployment. East Valley Trib reporter Paul Giblin was laid off from the Arizona paper last year even though he co-authored its series on immigration crackdowns that won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting yesterday. The supervising metro editor was also...http://www.newser.com/story/56739/pulitzer-winner-was-laid-off.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Apr 2009 3:39:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56706/new-york-times-garners-5-pulitzers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe New York Times received five Pulitzer Prizes today, including one for breaking the call-girl scandal that destroyed Gov. Eliot Spitzer's career. The Las Vegas Sun won for public service for exposing a high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip. America's top journalism awards were announced...http://www.newser.com/story/56706/new-york-times-garners-5-pulitzers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Apr 2009 15:40:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52433/playwright-screenwriter-horton-foote-dead-at-92.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPlaywright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in The Trip to Bountiful , Tender Mercies , and his Oscar-winning screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird , died today in Connecticut at age 92. Foote's writing career spanned more than half a century and earned him...http://www.newser.com/story/52433/playwright-screenwriter-horton-foote-dead-at-92.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Mar 2009 18:34:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50250/lbj-biographer-aims-for-eternity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLyndon Johnson's biographer takes his work seriously—so much so, he didn't cover LBJ's presidency for 30 years, Newsweek reports. Rising from the tabloid world in the 1960s, Robert Caro first wrote a painstaking biography of New York mogul Robert Moses. Next came a volume on LBJ's youth; Caro even...http://www.newser.com/story/50250/lbj-biographer-aims-for-eternity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 08 Feb 2009 18:56:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49132/john-updike-dies-at-76.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters, and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce, and other adventures in postwar America, died today of lung cancer at age 76. A literary force who frequently appeared on best-seller lists, Updike penned novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir Self-Consciousness , and...http://www.newser.com/story/49132/john-updike-dies-at-76.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Jan 2009 12:39:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44745/web-news-declared-eligible-for-pulitzer-prizes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Pulitzer board has expanded its criteria for award-worthy journalism to include Internet-only publications, Editor & Publisher reports today. While Pulitzers will be available to web outlets, sites must be “text-based” and publish original content at least weekly to be considered. The board made changes in an effort to “keep...http://www.newser.com/story/44745/web-news-declared-eligible-for-pulitzer-prizes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 08 Dec 2008 14:43:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/23768/pulitzer-rolls-to-rocker-dylan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagYou who still think Bob Dylan hasn't gotten the recognition his 50-year career merits—now is the time for your cheers. The genre-shifting icon won a special Pulitzer Prize yesterday, marking the first time the honor has gone to a rocker. The citation noted Dylan's "profound impact on popular music...http://www.newser.com/story/23768/pulitzer-rolls-to-rocker-dylan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Apr 2008 8:53:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23735/walter-reed-expose-helps-post-net-6-pulitzers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Washington Post today won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of the Walter Reed scandal and grabbed five more of the coveted awards in the biggest haul in the paper's history. A series on the power of Dick Cheney earned the national reporting medal, and...http://www.newser.com/story/23735/walter-reed-expose-helps-post-net-6-pulitzers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 07 Apr 2008 16:39:40 CDT