1950 Pulitzer Prize

"All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington", the prize-winning editorial cartoon
"Near Collision at Air Show", the prize-winning photograph

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1950.

Journalism awards

  • Public Service:
    • The Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.[1]
  • Local Reporting:
    • Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000-word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.
  • National Reporting:
    • Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.[2]
  • International Reporting:
    • Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored".
  • Editorial Writing:
    • Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson Citizen Patriot, for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
  • Editorial Cartooning:
  • Photography:

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

References

  1. ^ "Two reporters dug up 'shameful chapter in American journalism'". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 2, 1950 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
  2. ^ "Worked 6 months to get evidence to clear professor of red charge". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 2, 1950 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
  3. ^ "Tribune photographer wins Pulitzer Prize for news picture of near collision of airplanes". The Oakland Tribune. May 2, 1950 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

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