1991 Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1991 included not only awards given in all categories, but two separate awards were given for International Reporting:
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- Des Moines Register, For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped—which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.
- Spot News Reporting:
- Staff of The Miami Herald, For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
- Investigative Reporting:
- Joseph T. Hallinan and Susan M. Headden of The Indianapolis Star, For their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state.
- Explanatory Journalism:
- Susan C. Faludi of The Wall Street Journal, For a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., that revealed the human costs of high finance.
- Beat Reporting:
- Natalie Angier of The New York Times, For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.
- National Reporting:
- Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe of Gannett News Service, For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners.
- International Reporting:
- Serge Schmemann of The New York Times, For his coverage of the reunification of Germany.
- International Reporting:
- Caryle Murphy of The Washington Post, For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities.
- Feature Writing:
- Sheryl James of the St. Petersburg Times, For a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
- Commentary:
- Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post, For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
- Criticism:
- David Shaw of the Los Angeles Times, For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.
- Editorial Writing:
- Ron Casey, Harold Jackson and Joey Kennedy of The Birmingham News, For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
- Editorial Cartooning:
- Spot News Photography:
- Greg Marinovich of Associated Press, For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.
- Feature Photography:
- William Snyder of The Dallas Morning News, For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania.
Letters awards
- Fiction:
- History:
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Clarkson N. Potter)
- Poetry:
- General Non-Fiction:
- The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
Arts awards
- Drama:
- Music:
- Symphony by Shulamit Ran (Theodore Presser Company)
Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on October 19, 1990.
References
- "Winners of the 1991 Pulitzer Prizes in the Arts and Journalism". N.Y. / Region. The New York Times (Late Edition - Final ed.). New York. 10 April 1991. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners. Phoenix: Oryx Press. ISBN 9781573561112. OCLC 40126493 – via Google Books.
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