Celebrating excellence in journalism and the arts, Pulitzer Prizes to be awarded Monday

Text journalism's biggest time of the twelvemonth has arrrived with the yearly announcement of the Pulitzer Prizes

NEW YORK -- The Pulitzer Prizes are acceptable to beryllium announced connected Monday, traditionally the astir anticipated time of the twelvemonth for those hoping to gain people journalism's astir prestigious honor.

Along with honoring winners and finalists successful 15 journalism categories, the Pulitzer Board besides recognizes distinguished enactment successful areas including books, euphony and theater. The awards, which volition grant enactment from 2023, are scheduled to beryllium announced via livestream astatine 3 p.m. Eastern time.

While forecasting imaginable winners is simply a guessing game, the Pulitzers often spell to sum of the year's biggest stories. In this case, the Oct. 7 onslaught connected Israel and consequent warfare successful Gaza is simply a anticipation and whitethorn engender controversy.

With the Committee to Protect Journalists estimating astatine slightest 97 journalists and media workers person been killed successful Gaza, galore observers volition beryllium funny to spot if the Pulitzers admit enactment by Palestinian reporters. Last period a radical of journalism professors called connected The New York Times to code questions astir an probe into gender-based unit during the Hamas onslaught connected Israel.

The prizes are administered by Columbia University successful New York, which itself has been successful the quality for pupil demonstrations against the warfare successful Gaza. The Pulitzer committee met distant from Columbia this past play to deliberate connected its winners.

The committee issued a connection Thursday saluting pupil journalists astatine Columbia and different universities crossed the state for their enactment covering the field demonstrations.

For the archetypal time, the Pulitzers opened eligibility to broadcast and audio companies that besides run integer quality sites, specified arsenic CNN, NPR and the broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC. The enactment indispensable beryllium chiefly successful integer journalism, however.

The Columbia Journalism School besides administers the duPont-Columbia Awards, which admit audio and ocular journalism and are presented successful the winter.

The Pulitzers springiness retired currency awards and a medal for its prestigious nationalist work prize, won past twelvemonth by The Associated Press for its sum of the Russian siege of Mariupol successful Ukraine.

The Pulitzers besides announced that 5 of the 45 finalists this twelvemonth utilized artificial quality successful probe and reporting of their submissions. It was the archetypal clip the committee required applicants for the grant to disclose usage of AI.

The prizes were established successful the volition of paper steadfast Joseph Pulitzer and archetypal awarded successful 1917.

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David Bauder writes astir media for The Associated Press. Follow him astatine http://twitter.com/dbauder.