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The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes JOURNALISM Public Service The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Breaking News Reporting The Seattle Times Staff Investigative Reporting (two prizes) Eric Lipton of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Staff Explanatory Reporting Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News Local Reporting Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif. National Reporting Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post International Reporting The New York Times Staff Feature Writing Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times Commentary Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle Criticism Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times Editorial Writing Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe Editorial Cartooning Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News Breaking News Photography St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff Feature Photography Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, The New York Times LETTERS AND DRAMA Fiction All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) Drama Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis History Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang) Biography The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer (Random House) Poetry Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books) General Nonfiction The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt) MUSIC Anthracite Fields by Julia Wolfe (Red Poppy/G. Schirmer, Inc.) 1
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The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes
JOURNALISM
Public Service The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
Breaking News Reporting The Seattle Times Staff
Investigative Reporting (two prizes) Eric Lipton of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Staff
Explanatory Reporting Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News
Local Reporting Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif.
National Reporting Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post
International Reporting The New York Times Staff
Feature Writing Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times
Commentary Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle
Criticism Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times
Editorial Writing Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe
Editorial Cartooning Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News
Breaking News Photography St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff
Feature Photography Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, The New York Times
LETTERS AND DRAMA
Fiction All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
Drama Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
History Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)
Biography The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer (Random House)
Poetry Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)
General Nonfiction The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt)
MUSIC
Anthracite Fields by Julia Wolfe (Red Poppy/G. Schirmer, Inc.)
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The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes-Fact Sheet
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OvERvIEW
�� More than 2,500 entries are submitted each year to the Pulitzer Prize competition and 21 prizes are awarded (22 this year).
�� The year-long process begins with the appointment of 102 distinguished jurors who serve on separate juries and make three recommendations in each of 21 categories.
JOURNALISM
�� In the 14 Journalism categories, 1,191 entries were submitted this year (59 more than last year).
�� In Journalism, there was a robust competition with finalists coming from 24 different news organiza-tions. Winners represented 12 organizations.
�� This year, two categories, Investigative Reporting and Feature Writing, were opened to entries from print and online magazines. Qualifying magazines submitted a total of 64 entries in the two categories.
�� A New Yorker story by Jennifer Gonnerman was a finalist in Feature Writing.
�� The board awarded two Pulitzer Prizes in Investigative Journalism, one to Eric Lipton of The New York Times and one to The Wall Street Journal Staff. Lipton also won the 1992 prize in Explanatory Reporting.
ARTS AND LETTERS
�� In the arts categories, juries reviewed 1,452 books (11 more than last year). They also reviewed 198 Music entries and 105 plays.
�� This year’s arts and letters recipients are all first-time Pulitzer Prize winners. Julia Wolfe, the Music winner, was a nominated finalist in the category in 2010.
BOARD
�� The Board is composed of 18 members, 16 of whom are voting members.
�� Members serve a maximum of three three-year terms.
JURIES
�� Juries range in size. Journalism juries generally have five or seven members, depending on the vol-ume in a category. Book juries have three members. Music and Drama juries have five members each.
PROCEDURE
�� The Board makes the final decisions after evalu-ating all the finalists nominated by the juries and considering jury reports.
�� Prizes are awarded by majority vote of the Board, but the Board is also empowered to vote “no prize,” or by three-fourths vote to switch nomina-tions among categories, or to select any entry that has not been nominated by a jury.
AWARDS LUNCHEON
�� The prizes will be awarded at a luncheon on May 28 at Columbia’s Low Library.
SyMBOL OF THE PRIZES
�� The iconic Gold Medal is awarded each year to the American news organization that wins the Public Service category. It is never awarded to an individual. However, through the years, the Medal has come to symbolize the entire Pulitzer program.
The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes-Nominating Juries in JournalismCATEGORy ASSIGNMENTS
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1. Public ServiceScott Kraft, deputy managing editor, Los Angeles Times (Chair)
Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy editor-in-chief, The Wall Street Journal
Robin Fields, managing editor, ProPublica, New york, Ny
Martin Gottlieb, editor, The Record and Herald News of North Jersey
Josh Meyer, director of education and outreach of the National Security
Journalism Initiative, Northwestern University
Sandy Sugawara, managing editor, Trove, Washington, DC
Rene Sanchez, editor and senior vice president, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN
2. Breaking News ReportingLeona Allen, deputy managing editor, The Dallas Morning News (Chair)
Naedine Hazell, special projects and publications editor, Hartford Courant
Fred Kalmbach, managing editor, The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA
Mark Luckie, manager, journalism and media, Twitter, New york, Ny
3. Investigative Reporting *Mark Schoofs, investigations and projects editor, BuzzFeed News, New york, Ny (Chair)
*Brett Blackledge, investigations editor, Naples Daily News, Naples, FL
Karen Bordeleau, senior vice president and executive editor, Providence Journal
Mike Hudson, senior editor, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC
Tim Golden, managing editor, news and investigations, The Marshall Project, New york, Ny
Marty Kaiser, former editor and senior vice president, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Emily Ramshaw, editor, The Texas Tribune
Susan Snyder, reporter, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Alan White, editor, Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, MA
4. Explanatory ReportingJennifer Orsi, managing editor, Tampa Bay Times (Chair)
Deb Anderluh, senior editor for investigations and enterprise, Sacramento Bee
Thomas Fladung, managing editor, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH
Amalie Nash, editor and vice president for audience engagement, The Des Moines Register
Monica Richardson, managing editor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cliff Schechtman, executive editor, Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram
*Jeff Taylor, editor and vice president/news, The Indianapolis Star/IndyStar.com
5. Local ReportingAngie Muhs, executive editor and vice president of audience development, The State Journal-Register, Springfield, IL (Chair)
Buffy Andrews, assistant managing editor, social media & engagement, York Daily Record, york, PA
Bill Church, executive editor, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Meg Heckman, lecturer of journalism, University of New Hampshire
Jacinthia Jones, metro editor, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
Carlos Sanchez, executive editor, The Monitor, McAllen, TX
Ned Seaton, publisher and editor-in-chief, The Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, KS
6. National ReportingDavid Shipley, senior executive editor, Bloomberg View, New york, Ny (Chair)
Trif Alatzas, senior vice president and executive editor, The Baltimore Sun
Mary Elson, managing editor, Tribune Content Agency, Chicago, IL
Brian McGrory, editor, The Boston Globe
Terri Thompson, director, Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism, Columbia University
The 2015 Pulitzer Nominating Juries in Journalism
* Pulitzer Prize Winner
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7. International ReportingHannah Allam, national correspondent, McClatchy Newspapers, Washington, DC (Chair)
Philip Bennett, Eugene C. Patterson Professor and director, De Witt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke University
S. Mitra Kalita, managing editor for editorial strategy, Los Angeles Times
Lydia Polgreen, deputy international editor, The New York Times
Michael Williams, global enterprise editor, Thomson Reuters, New york, Ny
8. Feature Writing*Ann Marie Lipinski, curator, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University (Chair)
*David Finkel, national enterprise editor, The Washington Post
Susan Gage, director of local content, Oregonian Media Group, Portland, OR
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author, New york, Ny
Mary Rajkumar, international enterprise editor, Associated Press, New york, Ny
*Barry Siegel, professor of English and director, Literary Journalism Program, University of California, Irvine
Julia Turner, editor-in-chief, Slate, New york, Ny
9. CommentaryJim Newkirk, viewpoints editor, Houston Chronicle (Chair)
vincent Carroll, editorial page editor, The Denver Post
John Diaz, editorial page editor, San Francisco Chronicle
*Harold Jackson, editorial page editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Jane Kirtley, Silha Professor of media ethics and law, University of Minnesota
Kate Riley, editorial page editor, The Seattle Times
Terri Troncale, editorial page editor, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA
10. Criticism*Gail Caldwell, author, Cambridge, MA (Chair)
Eric Banks, director, New york Institute for the Humanities
Michael Phillips, film critic, Chicago Tribune
*Connie Schultz, columnist, Creators Syndicate, Los Angeles, CA
Bill Wyman, author & cultural critic, Al-Jazeera America, New york, Ny
11. Editorial Writingvanessa Gallman, editorial page editor, Lexington Herald-Leader (Chair)
Rita Ciolli, editorial and opinion editor, Newsday, Long Island, Ny & amNewYork, New york, Ny
John Fensterwald, editor-at-large, EdSource Today, San Francisco, CA
Pam Platt, editorial director, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky
Susan Smith Richardson, publisher and editor, The Chicago Reporter
12. CartoonsMichael Leary, editor and senior vice president, San Antonio Express News (Chair)
Karen Green, research collections and services librarian and adjunct curator of comics, Columbia University
Mónica Guzmán, freelance technology and media columnist, Seattle, WA
Douglas Ray, executive editor, The Gainesville (FL) Sun and Ocala Star-Banner
Mike Townsend, executive editor, Burlington Free Press, Burlington, vT
13. Breaking News and Feature PhotographyGeoff Forester, photo editor, Concord Monitor, Concord, NH (Chair)
*Barbara Davidson, photographer, Los Angeles Times
Kevin Martin, photo editor, Associated Press, New york, Ny
Stacy Pearsall, freelance photojournalist, Goose Creek, SC
Maggie Steber, educator; photographer and writer, National Geographic
The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes Nominating Juries in Letters, Drama and Music
* Pulitzer Prize Winner
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1. Fiction
Elizabeth Taylor, literary editor, Chicago Tribune (Chair)
Alan Cheuse, author, writer and NPR book commentator, Washington, DC
David Haynes, professor of English and director of creative writing, Southern Methodist University
2. Drama
Dominic P. Papatola, theater critic, St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chair)
Misha Berson, drama critic, The Seattle Times
Elysa Gardner, entertainment critic, USA Today* Lynn Nottage, playwright, New york, Ny
Marc Robinson, professor of English and theater studies, yale University
3. History
Lawrence N. Powell, professor emeritus, Tulane University (Chair)
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and professor of history; director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University
Anne F. Hyde, William R. Hochman Professor of History, Colorado College
4. Biography
David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, CUNy Graduate Center (Chair)
Barbara Ransby, professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies and history, University of Illinois at Chicago
Judith Thurman, biographer and staff writer, The New Yorker
5. Poetry
Bonnie Costello, professor of English and American literature, Boston University (Chair)
Cornelius Eady, professor of literature and writing, University of Missouri, Columbia
David Orr, poetry columnist, The New York Times
6. General Nonfiction
* Mark Feeney, arts writer, The Boston Globe (Chair)
Deborah Cohen, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and professor of history, Northwestern University
* Dan Fagin, associate professor and director of the science, health and environmental reporting program, Carter Institute of Journalism, New york University
7. Music
Carol Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music, Harvard University (Chair)
Steven Mackey, composer, professor and chair, department of music, Princeton University
Maria Schneider, composer and orchestra leader, New york, Ny
Mark Swed, music critic, Los Angeles Times
The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners
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Eric Lipton Zachary R. Mider Rob Kuznia
Rebecca Kimitch Frank Suraci Carol D. Leonnig
Diana Marcum Lisa Falkenberg Mary McNamara
The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Anthony Doerr Stephen Adly Guirgis Elizabeth A. Fenn
David I. Kertzer Gregory Pardlo Elizabeth Kolbert
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The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes-Breaking News Photography
CHRIStIaN GooDEN, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, aug. 22, 2014Roses stretch more than 60 yards through the Canfield Green Apartments to the Michael Brown memorial as Theo Murphy, left, of
Florissant, Mo., and his brother Jordan Marshall, 11, light candles.
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The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes-Feature Photography
DaNIEL BEREHuLak, The New York Times, Dec. 30, 2014Joseph S. Gbembo leans over the grave of his mother, Sia, at the cemetery in Foya, Liberia, where four members of the family who died
in the Ebola epidemic now lie. The Gbembo family lost 17 people to Ebola.
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The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes-Editorial Cartooning
aDaM ZyGLIS, The Buffalo News, May 14, 2014Award-winning cartoonist Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News uses strong images to connect with readers while conveying layers of
meaning in a few words.
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The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes-Winners Contacts
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JournalismPublic servicec/o Mitch PughExecutive EditorThe Post and [email protected]
Breaking news reportingc/o Kathy BestEditorThe Seattle Times206-464-3337 [email protected]
investigative reportingEric Liptonc/o Dean BaquetExecutive EditorThe New York Times212-556-1407 [email protected]
c/o Gerard BakerEditor-in-ChiefThe Wall Street [email protected]
Explanatory reportingZachary R. Miderc/o John MicklethwaitEditor-in-ChiefBloomberg [email protected]
local reportingRob KuzniaRebecca KimitchFrank Suracic/o Michael A. AnastasiExecutive Editor and Vice President of NewsDaily Breeze; Los Angeles News [email protected]
national reportingCarol D. Leonnigc/o Martin BaronExecutive Editor
The Washington Post202-334-9198 [email protected]
international reportingc/o Dean BaquetExecutive EditorThe New York Times212-556-1407 [email protected]
Feature WritingDiana Marcumc/o Davan MaharajEditorLos Angeles [email protected]
CommentaryLisa Falkenbergc/o Nancy BarnesEditor Houston [email protected]
CriticismMary McNamarac/o Davan MaharajEditorLos Angeles [email protected]
Editorial WritingKathleen Kingsburyc/o Marjorie PritchardOp-Ed Page EditorThe Boston [email protected]
The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes-Winners Contacts
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Editorial CartooningAdam Zyglisc/o Mike ConnellyEditorThe Buffalo News716-849-4504 [email protected]
Breaking news Photographyc/o Gilbert BailonEditorSt. Louis [email protected]
Feature Photography Daniel Berehulakc/o Dean BaquetExecutive EditorThe New York Times212-556-1407 [email protected]
lETTErs, Drama & musiCFictionAnthony Doerrc/o Gwyneth StansfieldAssociate PublicistSimon and Schuster/[email protected]
DramaStephen Adly Guirgis c/o Neil PepeArtistic DirectorAtlantic Theater [email protected]
HistoryElizabeth A. Fennc/o Victoria GennaDirector of Advertising and PromotionFarrar, Straus and Giroux/Hill and [email protected]
BiographyDavid I. Kertzer c/o Danielle SiessPublicity AssistantRandom [email protected]
PoetryGregory Pardloc/o Clarissa LongPublicist and Assistant EditorFour Way [email protected]
General NonfictionElizabeth Kolbertc/o Leslie BrandonPublicity ManagerHenry Holt646-307-5251 [email protected]
musicJulia Wolfec/o Tammy MooreAssistant to the Vice President and PromotionG. Schirmer, [email protected]
