Margaret M. Sullivan, the editor of The Buffalo News and a proponent of investigative reporting and journalistic service to the community, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Rising through the ranks, Sullivan was named editor of The News in 1999, the first woman to hold that position in the newspaper’s 131-year history. Previously, she was the paper's first female managing editor.
The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and journalism were presented May 23 at a luncheon on the Columbia University campus.
Pulitzer Board Co-Chairs Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the Associated Press, and Ann Marie Lipinski, curator-designate of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, addressed the crowd of more than 260.
Carroll paid tribute to past and present winners (text|video) while Lipinski spoke of the “meritocracy of excellence” that winners were joining (text|(video).
Also watch a slideshow of the 2011 Pulitzer luncheon and presentation ceremony in the majestic rotunda of Low Library.
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They are Jim Amoss, editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans; Kathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press; and Ann Marie Lipinski, the former editor of the Chicago Tribune and the curator-designate of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
Los Angeles Times reporters Ruben Vives, right, and Jeff Gottlieb celebrate after learning that the paper had been awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for stories about corruption in the city of Bell, Calif. (photo by Katie Falkenberg)
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Nominated Finalists were announced on April 18. Photos and bios of all the winners are available, as are the Prizewinning photographs in Breaking News Photography and Feature Photography, and the winning Editorial Cartoons by Mike Keefe. Other Prizewinning journalism will posted in the next few weeks. In the meantime, links to the winning entries on the news organizations' Websites are provided.
The Prizes will be awarded at a luncheon at Columbia University at the end of May.
In this slideshow, catch glimpses of the hardworking 2011 Pulitzer Prize Jurors in Journalism.
Arriving from across the nation, 77 jurors gathered at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism on March 7, 8 and 9 of 2011 to judge 1,097 entries in the Journalism competition and nominate three finalists in 14 categories.
For more information on how the Pulitzer process works, read "The tough task of judging journalism's most glittering prize" by Cory Lancaster, managing editor of The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and associate editor at The Washington Post, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Robinson’s essays on politics, culture and events have helped shape the debate on issues such as the war in Iraq, the limits of presidential power and the rebuilding of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast.
A 30-year veteran of The Post, Robinson was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary.
