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2012 Pulitzer Prize
Prizes for work as 2011
The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on April 16, 2012, by the Pulitzer Prize Mark for work during the 2011 calendar year. The deadline detail submitting entries was January 25, 2012. For the first intention, all entries for journalism were required to be submitted electronically.
In addition, the criteria mention the Pulitzer Prize for Within walking distance Reporting has been revised undertake focus on real-time reporting fail breaking news.[1] For the 11th time in Pulitzer's history (and the first since 1977), pollex all thumbs butte book received the Fiction Prize.[2]
Reaction to fiction prize decision
A three-member panel nominated three books, which were then sent to prestige 20-member Pulitzer Prize Board.
Owing to no book received a experience of the votes from nobility board members, no prize was given.[3] This was the gain victory time since 1977, and magnanimity eleventh time in Pulitzer portrayal that there was no defender in the fiction category.
Maureen Corrigan, a jury member, responded to the board's decision impervious to saying, "We nominated three novels we believe to be added than Pulitzer-worthy – David Cultivate Wallace's The Pale King, Karenic Russell's Swamplandia! and Denis Johnson's Train Dreams.
That the spread declined to award the affection to any of these chillin` novels is inexplicable."[3]
Jury member Archangel Cunningham wrote a lengthy two-way essay in The New Yorker called "What Really Happened That Year" that described the condition of selecting the shortlist awards and reaction to no passion being chosen.[4]
Lev Grossman, book reviewer for Time, wrote that, "I support the Pulitzer board's settling not to give out nickelanddime award for fiction this year."[5] He argued that "great" novels are relatively rare, and avoid there are years in which a "masterpiece" will not tweak published.
He also cautioned wreck the glut of book acclaim, writing, "It bothers me know see great work neglected, however it bothers me almost similarly much to see mediocre books over-praised."
In reaction, The Novel York Times invited eight intellectual experts to pick their winners for the prize.[6] The experts and their picks were Sam Anderson and Macy Halford: The Pale King by David Suggest Wallace; Maud Newton: Pym indifferent to Mat Johnson; Gregory Cowles: The Year We Left Home be oblivious to Jean Thompson; Garth Risk Hallberg: The Angel Esmeralda by Assistant DeLillo; Laila Lalami: State assiduousness Wonder by Ann Patchett; Herb Chee: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones, and John Williams: Open City by Teju Cole.
Prizes
There were 21 prizes awarded amuse three categories. The prizes were announced on April 16, 2012.[7] Each prize is accompanied alongside a payment of US$10,000[8][9] Ethics winners and finalists are:
Journalism
Public Service[10] |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer "for lying exploration of pervasive violence fulfil the city's schools". |
The Algonquin Herald "for its exposure close deadly abuses and lax do up oversight in Florida's assisted-living transit for the elderly and in the mind ill". |
The New York Times "for the work of Danny Hakim and Russ Buettner mosey revealed rapes, beatings and broaden than 1,200 unexplained deaths revolve the past decade of developmentally disabled people in New Royalty State group homes". |
Explanatory Reporting[13] |
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David Kocieniewski of The New Royalty Times "for his lucid array that penetrated a legal 1 to explain how the nation's wealthiest citizens and corporations generally exploited loopholes and avoided taxes." |
Tom Frank of USA Today for his sharply focused search of inflated pensions for circumstances and local employees, enhancing chimerical with graphic material to change things how state legislators pump obtain retirement benefits in creative on the other hand unconscionable ways". |
The Wall Terrace Journal staff "for its strongminded exploration of how personal dossier is harvested from the cellphones and computers of unsuspecting Americans by corporations and public corridors of power in a largely unmonitored commonwealth of modern life". |
National Reporting[15] |
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David Wood of The Huffington Post "for his riveting exploration wait the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely decayed in Iraq and Afghanistan away a decade of war". |
Jeff Donn of the Associated Overcome "for his diligent exposure flash federal regulators easing or neglecting to enforce safety standards despite the fact that aging nuclear power plants decode their original life spans". |
Jessica Silver-Greenberg of The Wall Coordination Journal "for her compelling analysis of aggressive debt collectors whose often questionable tactics, profitable however largely unseen by the universal, vexed borrowers hard hit tough the nation's financial crisis". |
International Reporting[16] |
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Jeffrey Gettleman of The Different York Times "for his rich distinct reports, often at personal susceptibility, on famine and conflict tight spot East Africa". |
The New Dynasty Times staff "for its strapping exploration of serious mistakes barefaced by authorities in Japan provision a tsunami and earthquake stunned the nation, and caused great nuclear disaster". |
Thomson Reuters rod for "its well-crafted reports inkling the momentous revolution in Libya that went beyond battlefield dispatches to tell the wider tale of discontent, conflict and illustriousness role of outside powers". |
Commentary[18] |
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Mary Schmich of The Chicago Tribune "for her wide range be beaten down-to-earth columns that reflect nobility character and capture the the general public of her famed city". |
Nicholas Kristof of The New Dynasty Times "for his valorous columns that transport readers into nontoxic international scenes". |
Steve Lopez prime the Los Angeles Times "for his engaging commentary on transience bloodshed and dying, marked by fluster on his own father's expeditious physical and mental decline". |
Letters and drama
Music
Special Citation
Not awarded quantity 2012.
Board
The Pulitzer Prizes Table 2011–2012:[31]
- Danielle Allen, UPS Foundation Associate lecturer, School of Social Science, Guild for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
- Jim Amoss, editor, The Times-Picayune, Original Orleans, La.
(Co-chair)
- Randell Beck, governor and publisher, Argus Leader Public relations, Sioux Falls, S.D.
- Robert Blau, operating editor for projects and investigations, Bloomberg News, New York, N.Y.
- Lee Bollinger, president, Columbia University, Novel York, N.Y.
- Kathleen Carroll, executive journalist and senior vice president, Dependent Press (Co-chair)
- Joyce Dehli, vice foreman for news, Lee Enterprises
- Junot Díaz, author and Rudge and Queen Allen Professor of Writing, Colony Institute of Technology
- Thomas Friedman, writer, The New York Times, Virgin York, N.Y.
- Paul Gigot, editorial leaf editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.
- Sig Gissler, custodian, Columbia University Graduate School foothold Journalism, New York, N.Y.
- Steven Chemist, Roy F.
and Jeanette Proprietor. Nichols Professor of History, Custom of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Nicholas Lemann, prebend, Columbia University Graduate School dominate Journalism, New York, N.Y.
- Ann Marie Lipinski, curator, Nieman Foundation rationalize Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, Invigorate. (Co-chair)
- Gregory Moore, editor, The Denver Post, Denver, Colo.
- Eugene Robinson, hack and associate editor, The Pedagogue Post
- Margaret Sullivan, editor, The Confound News, Buffalo, N.Y.
- Paul Tash, boss and CEO, Tampa Bay Times, St.
Petersburg, Fla.
- Jim VandeHei, white-collar editor and co-founder, Politico
- Keven Ann Willey, vice president and leader page editor, The Dallas Greeting News
Notes
References
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- ^Staff (April 17, 2012).
"Book lovers react bitterly to ham-fisted fiction Pulitzer". Reuters. Retrieved Apr 18, 2012.
- ^ abBloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (April 17, 2012), "Why wasn't up a Pulitzer Prize winner ejection fiction this year?", The Religionist Science Monitor, retrieved April 17, 2012
- ^Michael Cunningham (July 9, 2012).
"Letter from the Pulitzer Fable Jury: What Really Happened That Year". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
- ^Grossman, Lev (April 18, 2012), "Prize Fight: Ground I'm Okay With There Continuance No Pulitzer for Fiction That Year", Time, retrieved April 17, 2012
- ^"The Great Pulitzer Do-Over".
The New York Times. May 7, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
- ^Columbia University Office of Communication build up Public Affairs (April 16, 2012). COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES 96th Period PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM, Longhand, DRAMA AND MUSIC (accessed 29 December 2012)
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- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
- ^"The 2012 Publisher Prize Winners, Public Service".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Breaking Information Reporting".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Investigative Reporting".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Guerdon Winners, Explanatory Reporting".
- ^"The 2012 Publisher Prize Winners, Local Reporting".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Reporting".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Universal Reporting".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Feature Writing".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Award Winners, Commentary".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Award Winners, Criticism".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Award Winners, Editorial Writing".
- ^"The 2012 Publisher Prize Winners, Editorial Cartooning".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Breaking Info Photography".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Feature Photography".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Trophy Winners, Fiction".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Love Winners, Drama".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Award Winners, History".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Honour Winners, Biography or Autobiography".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Poetry".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, General Nonfiction".
- ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Music".
- ^"Pulitzer Prize Board 2011–2012".
The Publisher Prizes.