1950 Pulitzer Prize Explained

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1950.

Journalism awards

• Public Service

• • The Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.^[1]
• Local Reporting

• • Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000-word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.
• National Reporting

• • Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.^[2]
• International Reporting

• • Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored".
• Editorial Writing

• • Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson Citizen Patriot, for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
• Editorial Cartooning

• • James T. Berryman of the Washington Evening Star, for "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington".
• Photography

• • Bill Crouch of The Oakland Tribune, for his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show".^[3]

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Fiction

• • The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane).
• Drama

• • South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan (Random).
• History

• • Art and Life in America by Oliver Waterman Larkin (Rinehart).
• Biography or Autobiography

• • John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf).
• Poetry

• • Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper).
• Music

• • Music in The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti (G. Schirmer), produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.

External links

• Pulitzer Prizes for 1950

Notes and References

1. News: Two reporters dug up 'shameful chapter in American journalism'. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 2, 1950. Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
2. News: Worked 6 months to get evidence to clear professor of red charge. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 2, 1950. Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
3. News: Tribune photographer wins Pulitzer Prize for news picture of near collision of airplanes. The Oakland Tribune. May 2, 1950. Newspapers.com.