Pulitzer Prize 2016 announced
Q. Who has instituted the Pulitzer awards?- Published on 20 Apr 16a. John Pulitzer
b. Ian Pulitzer
c. Joseph Pulitzer
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Joseph Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Prize is an awarded to persons from newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
- It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher
- It is administered by Columbia University in New York City.
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners- National Reporting
- The Washington Post Staff
- International Reporting – Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times
- Feature Writing – Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker
- Commentary – Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe
- Criticism – Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker
- Editorial Writing – John Hackworth of Sun Newspapers, Charlotte Harbor, FL
- Editorial Cartooning – Jack Ohman The Sacramento Bee
- Breaking News Photography – Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter of The New York Times, Photography Staff of Thomson Reuters
- Feature Photography – Jessica Rinaldi of The Boston Globe
- Public Service – Associated Press
- Breaking News Reporting – Los Angeles Times Staff
- Investigative Reporting – Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
- Explanatory Reporting – T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project
- Local Reporting – Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner of the Tampa Bay Times
- History – Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography – Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (Penguin Press)
- Poetry – Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian (University of Chicago Press)
- Fiction – The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
- Drama – Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Nonfiction – Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick (Doubleday)
- Music – In for a Penny, In for a Pound by Henry Threadgill (Pi Recordings)
