The Pulitzers

Note: The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes for Excellence in Journalism, founded 1917, were announced Monday. Click for full list of winners.

“For an entire century the Pulitzer Prizes . . . have had a wonderful impact not just on journalism and arts and letters, but, I would argue, on our democracy. [T]his is a moment where journalism is under attack. The very concepts of fact and truth are under assault . . . by a concerted and constant and very serious attempt to discredit and disqualify the voices of the news media.”

—Eugene Robinson, Washington Post columnist and Pulitzer Board chairman, “The Pulitzers celebrate next 100 years with cocktails and a case for the free press,” Columbia Journalism Review, March 28, 2018.

• Editorial Comment: Here’s to another century of free and independent journalism. It makes a difference.

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