Pulitzer Prizes mark 100th year with Monday's awards April 18,2016

The Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1917 with a bequest from trail-blazing publisher Joseph Pulitzer, are marking their 100th year on Monday with the announcement of the winners of what are regarded as the most prestigious awards in American journalism.

The Pulitzers recognize excellence in categories that range from breaking news reporting to public service articles to feature photography. In addition to the journalism awards, there are prizes in fiction, history, drama, music and other literary forms.

There are 21 prizes in play every year. Winners are selected by an independent board after judges make nominations from a total of 2,400 entries across the range of categories. The board has the option of naming no winner in any category.

The announcement takes place at 3 p.m. ET (1900 GMT) on Monday April 18,2016 at New York's Columbia University, which founded its School of Journalism with an endowment from Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World and other U.S. newspapers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His will provided funding for the prizes in the early years and named Columbia to administer them.

Over the years, the New York Times has taken more awards than any other news organization, receiving 117 Pulitzer Prizes and citations.In 2015,the paper won three Pulitzers, including an international reporting prize for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa

The 2015 Pulitzer for Public Service went to Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier for its series on domestic violence.


Note

The Pulitzer Prize  is an award for achievements in Newspaper and Online Journalism, literature and musical composition in the USA

It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City 

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award.

The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, but only those that have specifically entered

There is a $50 entry fee, paid 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

The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a Gold Medal
The prize for Public Service is awarded only to news organizations, not individuals. Awards for journalism categories such as General News Reporting may be awarded to individuals or newspapers or newspaper staffs

Each year, 102 judges are selected, by the Pulitzer Prize Board, to serve on 20 separate juries for the 21 award categories (one jury for both photography awards). Most juries consist of five members, except for those for public service, investigative reporting, beat reporting, feature writing and commentary categories, which have seven members. For each award category, a jury makes three nominations. The board selects the winner by majority vote from the nominations, or—75% majority vote—bypasses the nominations and selects a different entry. The board can also vote to issue no award. The board is not paid for its work

Nelson Harding is the only person to have won a prize in two consecutive years, the Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer in 1927 and 1928

Many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize