The entry deadline for The Pulitzer Prize in Drama is December 31 (postmark). The Prize is awarded to "a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life." Plays written by U.S. citizens and produced in the United States during 2009 are eligible.
Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of Politico, a new media company covering national politics and governance, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board. VandeHei is the first representative of a primarily online news organization to serve on the Pulitzer Board.
Vanity Fair recently named VandeHei among the 100 most powerful Information Age thinkers for helping create the “model for the new media success story."
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The eligibility rules for the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism have been revised, opening the door wider to entries from text-based online-only newspapers and news sites.
Updated entry forms and guidelines for the 2010 journalism competition are now available on our How to enter page.
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The Pulitzer Prize Board is seeking new musical works of distinction that reflect its wider interest in the full range of high-quality American music, from classical to jazz, musical theater, film scores and other forms of musical excellence.
Music Prize winners (left to right): Steve Reich 2009, David Lang 2008 and Ornette Coleman 2007
Among the competition’s most notable changes: Public release of a recording in the United States is accepted as the equivalent of a premier performance of a work. While submission of a score is urged, it is not required – thus providing greater leeway for improvised music.
The eligibility period for the 2010 Prize is the 2009 calendar year. Entries must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2009.
While America’s news media face serious economic problems and other challenges, the work of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners show that the best of journalism is “as vital as ever,” said Anders Gyllenhaal, the chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, at the 2009 Awards Luncheon at Columbia University.
Gyllenhaal (left), executive editor of The Miami Herald and an advocate of newsroom experimentation and online journalism, will lead the Board in 2009-2010.
Lee Bollinger (right), president of Columbia University and a Pulitzer Board member, presented the prizes at the luncheon attended by more than 250.
Alexandra Berzon, Michael Kelley and Brian Greenspun, of the Las Vegas Sun, accept the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service from Columbia University President, Lee Bollinger (left).
View all the 2009 winners and finalists in journalism, books, drama and music. See prizewinning photos, cartoons, bios and photos of winners, and links to prizewinning stories.
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Juror Mizell Stewart III reads an entry.
On March 2, 3 and 4, 77 jurors from across America assembled at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism to judge 1,028 entries in the Journalism competition and nominate three finalists in each of 14 categories. A snowstorm hit the night before opening day but jurors were undeterred.
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Les Prix Pulitzer 2010 ont été décernés lundi à New York.

Pour la première fois des sites Internet ont été récompensés. Ainsi, dans la catégorie « journalisme d'investigation », le site  ProPublica.org est récompensé pour un article sur un centre médical de la Nouvelle-Orléans après l'ouragan Katrina, en collaboration avec le ''Philadelphia Daily News'' et le ''New York Times Magazine''. Dans la catégorie « Dessins de presse », c'est Mark Fiore qui obtient le prix pour ses animations publiées sur  SFGate.com.

Le ''Washington Post'', qui n'avait obtenu qu'une récompense l'an dernier, se rattrape en décrochant quatre prix cette année, contre trois pour son rival du ''New York Times''.

Au total, les récompenses ont été décernées dans 21 catégories, dans le domaine du journalisme, mais aussi des lettres et de la musique. Le chanteur Hank Williams a également été récompensé à titre posthume, 57 ans après sa mort.