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Pulitzer Prize Expands To Include Audio Reporting

Pulitzer Prize Expands To Include Audio Reporting
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The Pulitzer Prize Board announced in New York a new journalism prize category for the 2020 prize cycle: Audio Reporting.
    
The new prize will be awarded “For a distinguished example of audio journalism that serves the public interest, characterized by revelatory reporting and illuminating storytelling.”
  
The Board invites submissions from producers of radio programs and podcasts that exemplify the excellence the Pulitzer Prizes have honored for more than a century. Competitive entries will reflect the work the prize has championed traditionally, from investigative reporting that exposes wrongdoing to dynamic features, and news coverage of major issues or events.

News organizations currently eligible to compete for the Pulitzer Prize include U.S. newspapers, magazines, wire services, and online news sites that publish regularly will be permitted to enter audio stories in this new category, as will independent American producers and U.S. radio broadcast outlets.
  
Non-U.S. outlets are ineligible. Eligibility rules for the other 14 journalism categories will remain intact.
  
Entered work must have been aired during the 2019 calendar year. FAQs with further details regarding the entry process are available at Pulitzer.org.

The contest for Audio Reporting and all other Journalism categories will open on December 16, 2019, and the deadline for all submissions is January 24, 2020, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
  
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and to establish the Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917.
  
The 19-member Pulitzer Board is composed mainly of leading journalists or news executives from media outlets across the U.S., as well as five academics or persons in the arts. The dean of Columbia’s journalism school and the administrator of the prizes are nonvoting members.
  
The chair rotates annually to the most senior member or members. The board is self-perpetuating in the election of members. Voting members may serve three terms of three years each for a total of nine years.

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