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Pulitzer Prize For Local Reporting, Edition Time
The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news, local reporting on news of the moment. It has been awarded since 1953 under several names: *From 1953 to 1963: Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time *From 1964 to 1984: Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting *From 1985 to 1990: Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting *From 1991 to 1997: Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting *From 1998 to present: Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting Prior to 1953, a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting combined both breaking and investigative reporting under one category. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award. Hitherto confined to local coverage, the Breaking News Reporting category was expanded to encompass state and national reporting in 2017. List of winners for Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time * 1953: Editorial Staff o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University. Prizes are awarded annually in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal. Entry and prize consideration The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, but only those that have specifically been entered. (There is a $75 entry fee, for each desired entry category.) Entries must fit in at least one of the specific prize categories, and cannot simply gain entrance for being literary or musical. Works can also be entered only in a maximum of two categories, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fargo Forum
''The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead'' or more recently ''The Forum'' is an American, English language newspaper. It is the major newspaper for Fargo, North Dakota and the surrounding region, including Moorhead, Minnesota. It is the flagship and namesake of Forum Communications. ''The Forum'', as it is commonly known, is the primary paper for southeast North Dakota, and also much of northwest Minnesota. Its average daily circulation was about 47,100 on Sundays and 37,500 on Saturdays prior to reducing its print schedule to semi-weekly. ''The Fargo Forum'' was first published on November 17, 1891 by Major A. W. Edwards. However, it traces its lineage to ''The Republican'', which had been founded by Edwards in 1878 and merged into ''the Forum'' in 1894. It has been owned by the family of Norman B. Black since 1917. Publisher Bill Marcil, Jr. is the son of Black's great-granddaughter; he is the fifth generation of the family to run the paper and the company. It took its current form in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1962. Journalism awards *Public Service: **The ''Panama City News-Herald'', for its three-year campaign against entrenched power and corruption, with resultant reforms in Panama City, Florida, and Bay County, Florida. * Local Reporting, Edition Time: ** Robert D. Mullins of the ''Deseret News'' (Salt Lake City) for his resourceful coverage of a murder and kidnapping at Dead Horse Point, Utah. * Local Reporting, No Edition Time: ** George Bliss of the ''Chicago Tribune'', for his initiative in uncovering scandals in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, with resultant remedial action. *National Reporting: ** Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham of the ''Nashville Tennessean'', for their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers. * International Reporting: ** Walter Lippma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager. As of 2018, the company's current music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Met was founded in 1883 as an alternative to the previously established Academy of Music opera house, and debuted the same year in a new building on 39th and Broadway (now known as the "Old Met"). It moved to the new Lincoln Center location in 1966. The Metropolitan Opera is the largest classical music organization in North America. Until 2019, it presented about 27 different operas each year from late September through May. The operas are presented in a rotating repertory schedule, with up to seven performances of four different works staged each week. Performances are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Warren
Leonard Warren (April 21, 1911 – March 4, 1960) was an American opera singer. A baritone, he was a leading artist for many years with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Especially noted for his portrayals of the leading baritone roles in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, he had few rival baritones in his time. His power and range were the highlights of his vocal instrument. Biography Born Leonard Warenoff in the Bronx to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Warren was first employed in his father's fur business. In 1935, he joined the chorus at Radio City Music Hall. In 1938, he entered the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air. The Met sent him to Italy that summer with a stipend to study. Returning to the United States, Warren made his concert debut at the Metropolitan Opera in excerpts from ''La traviata'' and ''Pagliacci'' during a concert in New York City in November 1938. His operatic debut took place there in January 1939, when he sang Paolo in ''Simon Boccanegra''. A r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Warren Dies At The Met
Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' Leo,'' and the suffix ''hardu'' ("brave" or "hardy"). The name has come to mean "lion strength", "lion-strong", or "lion-hearted". Leonard was the name of a Saint in the Middle Ages period, known as the patron saint of prisoners. Leonard is also an Irish origin surname, from the Gaelic ''O'Leannain'' also found as O'Leonard, but often was anglicised to just Leonard, consisting of the prefix ''O'' ("descendant of") and the suffix ''Leannan'' ("lover"). The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire, England, and in 1479 in Ulm, Germany. Variations The name has variants in other languages: * Leen, Leendert, Lenard (Dutch) * Lehnertz, Lehnert (Luxembourgish) * Len (English) * :hu:Lénárd (Hungarian) * Lenart ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Herald Tribune
The ''New York Herald Tribune'' was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966. It was created in 1924 when Ogden Mills Reid of the ''New-York Tribune'' acquired the ''New York Herald''. It was regarded as a "writer's newspaper" and competed with ''The New York Times'' in the daily morning market. The paper won twelve Pulitzer Prizes during its lifetime. A "Republican paper, a Protestant paper and a paper more representative of the suburbs than the ethnic mix of the city", according to one later reporter, the ''Tribune'' generally did not match the comprehensiveness of ''The New York Times'' coverage. Its national, international and business coverage, however, was generally viewed as among the best in the industry, as was its overall style. At one time or another, the paper's writers included Dorothy Thompson, Red Smith, Roger Kahn, Richard Watts Jr., Homer Bigart, Walter Kerr, Walter Lippmann, St. Clair McKelway, Judith Crist, Dick Schaap, Tom Wolfe, John Steinbeck, and J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Morgan (writer)
Ted Morgan (born March 30, 1932) is a French–American biographer, journalist, and historian. Life Morgan was born Count Sanche Charles Armand Gabriel de Gramont in Geneva. He is the son of Gabriel Antoine Armand, Count de Gramont (1908–1943), a pilot in the French escadrille in England during World War II. Gramont is an old French noble family. His father was the son of the 11th Duke of Gramont and his third wife, Maria of the Princes Ruspoli. After his father's death in a training flight, Morgan began to lead two parallel lives. He attended Yale University (where he was a member of Manuscript Society) and worked as a reporter. But he was still a member (albeit a reluctant one) of the French nobility. He was drafted into the French Army where he served for two years from 1955 to 1957, during the Algerian War, initially as a second lieutenant with a Senegalese regiment of Colonial Infantry and then as a propaganda officer. He subsequently wrote in frank detail of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1961. Journalism awards *Public Service: ** The '' Amarillo Globe-Times'', for "exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about the election of a reform slate. The newspaper thus exerted its civic leadership in the finest tradition of journalism." * Local Reporting, Edition Time: ** Sanche de Gramont of the '' New York Herald Tribune'', "for his moving account of the death of Leonard Warren on the Metropolitan Opera stage". * Local Reporting, No Edition time: **Edgar May of '' The Buffalo Evening News'', for his 14-part series about New York's public welfare services, "Our Costly Dilemma", which "brought about reforms that attracted nationwide attention". *National Reporting: **Edward R. Cony of ''The Wall Street Journal'', "for his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to problems of business ethics". * International R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' is the only major daily newspaper in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. It is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises. The ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' is the result of the merger between ''The Atlanta Journal'' and ''The Atlanta Constitution''. The two staffs were combined in 1982. Separate publication of the morning ''Constitution'' and the afternoon ''Journal'' ended in 2001 in favor of a single morning paper under the ''Journal-Constitution'' name. The ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' has its headquarters in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, Georgia. It was formerly co-owned with television flagship WSB-TV and six radio stations, which are located separately in midtown Atlanta; the newspaper remained part of Cox Enterprises, while WSB became part of an independent Cox Media Group. ''The Atlanta Journal'' ''The Atlanta Journal'' was established in 1883. Founder E. F. Hoge sold the paper to Atlanta lawyer Hoke Smith in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Nelson (journalist)
John Howard "Jack" Nelson (October 11, 1929 – October 21, 2009) was an American journalist. He was praised for his coverage of the Watergate scandal, in particular, and he was described by ''New York Times'' editor Gene Roberts as "one of the most effective reporters in the civil rights era." He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960. Youth Nelson was born in Talladega, Alabama. His father ran a fruit store during the Great Depression. Nelson moved with his family to Georgia and eventually to Biloxi, Mississippi, where he graduated from Notre Dame High School in 1947. Early career After graduating from high school Nelson began his journalism career with the ''Biloxi Daily Herald''. There he earned the nickname 'Scoop' for his aggressive reporting. He then worked for the U.S. Army writing press releases before taking a job with the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' in 1952. He won the Pulitzer for local reporting under deadline in 1960, citing "the excellent reporting in his series of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1960. Journalism awards *Public Service: ** The ''Los Angeles Times'', for its thorough, sustained and well-conceived attack on narcotics traffic and the enterprising reporting of Gene Sherman, which led to the opening of negotiations between the United States and Mexico to halt the flow of illegal drugs into southern California and other border states. * Local Reporting, Edition Time: ** Jack Nelson of ''The Atlanta Constitution'', for the excellent reporting in his series of articles on mental institutions in Georgia. * Local Reporting, No Edition Time: ** Miriam Ottenberg of the '' Evening Star'' (Washington, DC), for a series of seven articles exposing a used-car racket in Washington, D.C., that victimized many unwary buyers. The series led to new regulations to protect the public and served to alert other communities to such sharp practices. *National Reporting: ** Vance Trimble of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, for a series of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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