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2010 Pulitzer Prize winners honored at Columbia
The abiding importance of excellence and the power of the single person were underscored by the co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board when the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and journalism were presented on May 24 at a luncheon on the Columbia University campus. More than 300 attended.
David Kennedy, a historian at Stanford University, explored the history of excellence, saying it is “rare, difficult to achieve, but a source of much happiness.” (text/video)
His co-chair, Amanda Bennett, an executive editor at Bloomberg News, stressed how distinguished journalism repeatedly comes down “to the decisions, and the actions, and the passion of one person.” (text/video)
Also on the luncheon page, watch a slide show of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize luncheon and presentation ceremony at Low Library on the Columbia campus.Pulitzer winners In the News
Our "In the News" page provides links to stories about Pulitzer Prize winners.
In this story from The Washington Post, two-time Pulitzer winner Steve Breen explains how he decided to "fly to the Gulf so he could color his editorial cartoons about the spill out of true BP crude. What better way to capture the visual truth of a situation, he reasoned, than to capture the genuine viscous article to use as medium?"
Novelist Junot Díaz Joins Pulitzer Prize Board
Junot Díaz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose work explores the Dominican-American immigrant experience, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board
A creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his best-selling first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Pulitzer Prize Board announces new co-chairs
Amanda Bennett, an executive editor for Bloomberg News noted for her leadership in investigative journalism, and David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Stanford University professor and co-director of a center that studies the American West, have been elected the new co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
2010 Pulitzer Prize winners
The 2010 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, were announced on April 12, 2010. Prizewinning articles, columns, photos and cartoons are available, as are bios and photos of the winners. The Prizes will be awarded at a luncheon at Columbia University on May 24, 2010. (Prizewinning Breaking News Photograph by Mary Chind, left, and a photo from Craig F. Walker's Prizewinning Feature Photography portfolio, right.)
Journalism jurors on the job
Arriving from across the nation, 77 jurors gathered at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism on March 1, 2 and 3 of 2010 to judge 1,103 entries in the Journalism competition and nominate three finalists in 14 categories.
Photos by Photo jurors Nancy Andrews, Steve Gonzales and Richard Murphy. Click on image of Editorial Writing juror Jeffrey Good, right, to see glimpses of the jurors at work.