Tag: Pulitzer Prize Awards
‘He was our eye’: Reuters photographer killed in Afghanistan
LONDON — A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Reuters news service was killed Friday as he chronicled fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban...
Pulitzer Prizes to be announced after delay caused by virus
NEW YORK — The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts will be announced Friday, recognizing the best work in a year in which...
‘The Night Watchman,’ Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers
NEW YORK — One of the country’s most esteemed novelists, Louise Erdrich, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Night Watchman.”
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Tenure for slavery project journalist back to UNC trustees
RALEIGH, N.C. — The offer of a tenured teaching position to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has been resubmitted to the board of trustees at a...
Foundation urges UNC to rethink Hannah-Jones tenure decision
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The foundation that funds the University of North Carolina professorship offered to investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is urging the university...
AP’s Sally Buzbee named exec editor of The Washington Post
NEW YORK — Sally Buzbee, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, was named Tuesday as executive editor of The Washington...
Florence Welch throws her hat into the musical theater ring
NEW YORK — Florence Welch is ditching the machine for musicals.
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Pulitzer-winning composer Wayne Peterson dies at 93
SAN FRANCISCO — Composer, pianist and educator Wayne Peterson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for music that was hotly contested because judges had chosen...
Two books based on ‘1619 Project’ coming out in November
NEW YORK — Two books based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project” will be released this fall, with contributions from Jesmyn Ward, Jason Reynolds,...