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The East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa will close on Dec. 31, less than a year after embarking on an experiment to focus more on digital content and reduce the number of days it went to print.
Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike, a member of the university's class of 1954.
Fred Kinne, a veteran editor who helped a San Diego newspaper win the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of a 1978 plane crash, has died. He was 93.
After a childhood of almost impossible suffering, Frank McCourt came to embody so many improbable dreams.
Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy has received another literary honor.
Fresh off a Pulitzer Prize win for his newspaper, Detroit Free Press Publisher David Hunke was appointed Tuesday to head the nation's largest newspaper, USA Today.
Struggling simply to survive as readership and advertising drop, the Detroit Free Press celebrated winning a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its reporting of a sex scandal that brought down the city's mayor.
Stories of race and gender prevailed at this year's Pulitzer Prizes, with "Ruined," Lynn Nottage's harrowing tale of survival set against the backdrop of an African civil war, winning for drama Monday and books about slavery, civil rights and Andrew Jackson also receiving awards.
Two newspapers hit hard by a historic downturn won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for exposing sex scandals that brought down a governor and a big-city mayor, in what was hailed as a victory for old-fashioned watchdog journalism at a time when the industry's very survival is in question.
Photographer Rocco Morabito, whose shot of a utility worker saving the life a fellow lineman who had been shocked by a high-voltage wire won a Pulitzer Prize in 1968, died Sunday. He was 88.
In a story Dec. 8, The Associated Press reported that the Pulitzer Prize board began accepting online content from newspaper Web sites in 2006. The story should have noted that the board began allowing online content in 1999 in the Public Service category. In 2006, the board began to allow online content from newspaper Web sites in all journalism categories.
The Pulitzer Prize board announced Monday that it is expanding eligibility for its awards to news organizations that publish only online, reflecting the growing influence of Internet journalism.
The publisher of the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, S.D., and the editorial page editor of The Dallas Morning News have been named to the Pulitzer Prize board.
Former Dallas Times Herald Executive Editor Ken Johnson, who transformed the newspaper into a Pulitzer Prize winner, has died at the age of 74.
Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough has a suggestion for what young people can do for their country.
Investigative journalist Robert W. Greene, who led reporters from across the country in an effort to uncover corruption in Arizona and who twice helped Newsday win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, died Thursday. He was 78.
"August: Osage County," winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama, was born out of a unique collaboration between playwright Tracy Letts and the place he calls his artistic home — Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company.
Thanks to Bob Dylan, rock 'n' roll has finally broken through the Pulitzer wall.
The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday — the most in its history — including awards for its coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre and a series exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital.
Sixty years after New England poet Robert Frost sat down with Dartmouth College students for an off-the-record lecture, the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner's words to them are being published for the first time.
"The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted "unrealistic data," according to a document obtained by ABC News."
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has written an article that does no credit to him or to the prize that he was once awarded.
Countdown: Senators Opposed to "Socialized" Health Insurance Voted for "Socialized" Property Insuranceexcerpt: "" As Keith notes, the Senators who hate the idea of a public option for health insurance sure didn't have any problem voting for a public option to protect the profits of insurance companies against too many flood claims.""
Author Targets Pop Culture's 'Empire Of Illusion'In his new book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Chris Hedges describes the polarities of the two societies he says we are now living in: One side is based in reality and able to separate illusion from truth; the other side is rooted in fanta …
St. Petersburg Times Wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes In Single YearFor the first time in its 125-year history, the St. Petersburg Times has won two Pulitzer Prizes in a single year.
Pulitzers recognize the public watchdogsA five-part Los Angeles Times series on the futility of government efforts to quell the growing threat of wildfires won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday, and the New York Times claimed five of journalism's highest awards in a year that recognized the watchdog function of the press even …
The story as told in the National Geographic magazine in the April 2008 magazine on page 48 is truthful but it is not the true story of Ahmed Juma Abakar this, I hope for his sake is.
Pulitzer Prizes to allow online-only publicationsCALLING ALL VINERS! The Pulitzer Prize Board that oversees the awards said the 2009 prizes, which will be announced in April, had been broadened to include "text-based newspapers and news organizations that publish only on the Internet."
Samantha Power re-joins ObamaSamantha Power, the foreign-policy scholar who was banished from the Obama campaign for referring to Sen.
Pulitzer Prize for Bob Dylan's 'poetic power'Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan added a new title to his impressive résumé Monday: Pulitzer Prize winner.
And The 2008 Pulitzer Prize For Editoral Writing Goes To..... Nobody?For distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction, in print or in print and online, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
Washington Post Wins 6 Pulitzer PrizesThe Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, the second-most any newspaper has won in a single year, including awards for reporting that helped define much of the national political dialogue last year.
AP Journalist Arrested for "taking photographs the US Government did not want its citizens to see"We believe Bilal's crime was taking photographs the U.S. government did not want its citizens to see. That he was part of a team of AP photographers who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for work in Iraq may have made Bilal even more of a marked man.
Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With a Matching Ego, Dies at 84 - New York TimesNorman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation, died early yesterday in Manhattan. He was 84.
Literary giant Norman Mailer dies at 84"Norman Mailer, the self-proclaimed heavyweight champion of postwar American letters, whose six decades in the public eye helped make him one of America's most acclaimed, and controversial authors, died this morning of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Author Norman Mailer dies at 84Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer has died of renal failure aged 84, his literary executor has said. Mailer won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Armies of the Night in 1968 and The Executioner's Song in 1979.
Death Gripn June 2004 I went door to door in a white working- class neighbourhood of Martinsburg West Virginia a small blue-collar town in decline. There I found voters disillusioned with both the Iraq war and the flagging economy.
E.W. Scripps To Sell Or Shut Down Albuquerque TribuneE.W. Scripps, a prominent newspaper publishing company, has ominously proposed to sell the Albuquerque Tribune - the catch - buy it, or it's gone.
Iconic photo changed history, and photographer's life foreverSometimes a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Sometimes it can change a man's life and even, for good or ill, the course of international politics.
It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp" "Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism.
Email rebounds on writer who lost wife to Turner Robert Olen Butler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, is careful to warn recipients of an email dispatched on Tuesday to take a deep breath before proceeding.
R Murdoch Buys WSJ - Will Tarnish It's Journalistic RecordThe Mona Lisa should hang in a museum, not a subway platform. The Statue of Liberty should stand unvarnished in New York Harbor, not draped with corporate logos.
To Catch A MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird isn't just a novel set in Monroeville, Alabama. It's the town's obsession. "Top secret," Mr. X whispered to me toward the end of my stay in Monroeville, Alabama. "Nelle is in town."
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