1954 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1954.
Journalism awards[]
- Public Service:
- Newsday (Garden City, New York), for its expose of New York State's race track scandals and labor racketeering, which led to the extortion indictment, guilty plea and imprisonment of , New York labor racketeer.
- Local Reporting, Edition Time:
- Vicksburg Sunday Post-Herald, for its outstanding coverage of the tornado of December 5, 1953, under extraordinary difficulties.
- Local Reporting, No Edition Time:
- Alvin Scott McCoy of The Kansas City Star, for a series of exclusive stories which led to the resignation under fire of C. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman.
- National Reporting:
- Richard L. Wilson of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, for his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case before it was laid before the Senate by J. Edgar Hoover.[1]
- International Reporting:
- Jim G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the armistice and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent.[2]
- Editorial Writing:
- Don Murray of the Boston Herald, for a series of editorials on the New Look in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy.
- Editorial Cartooning:
- Herbert L. Block (Herblock) of The Washington Post & Washington Times-Herald, for a cartoon depicting the robed figure of Death saying to Stalin after he died, You Were Always A Great Friend of Mine, Joseph.
- Photography:
- Virginia Schau, an amateur from San Anselmo, California, for snapping a thrilling rescue at Redding, California, the picture being published in the Akron Beacon Journal and other newspapers and nationally distributed by the AP.[3][4]
Letters, Drama and Music Awards[]
- Fiction:
- No award given.
- Drama:
- History:
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Poetry:
- Music:
- Concerto For Two Pianos and Orchestra by Quincy Porter (American Composers Alliance). First performed by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, March 17, 1954. This was one of the works commissioned under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation for new American compositions for orchestra, or soloists and orchestra.
References[]
- ^ "Wilson of Register wins Pulitzer Prize". The Des Moines Register. May 4, 1954 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
- ^ "Herald-Post writer wins Pulitzer Prize for war dispatches". El Paso Herald-Post. May 4, 1954 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Bee published photo wins Pulitzer Prize". The Sacramento Bee. May 3, 1954 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "BJ backs into role in Pulitzer award". Akron Beacon Journal. May 4, 1954 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
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