Pulitzer Prize
noun
Pu·lit·zer Prize
ˈpu̇-lət-sər- 
ˈpyü-
: any of various annual prizes (as for outstanding literary or journalistic achievement) established by the will of Joseph Pulitzer
called also Pulitzer
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Rohde was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his Christian Science Monitor series on the mass execution of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica during the war in Bosnia.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Rohde, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will join MSNBC under Versant, the new company slated to be spun off from NBCUniversal in coming weeks as corporate parent Comcast tries to separate an eroding cable business from its broadcast and streaming assets.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Oscar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love in 1990 — the first Latino author to receive the honor — died in October 2013 at the age of 62.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
The Orphan Master’s Son, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013, follows a North Korean man struggling to survive amid the cruelty and madness of a modern totalitarian regime.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Rohde, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will join MSNBC under Versant, the new company slated to be spun off from NBCUniversal in coming weeks as corporate parent Comcast tries to separate an eroding cable business from its broadcast and streaming assets.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Oscar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love in 1990 — the first Latino author to receive the honor — died in October 2013 at the age of 62.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
The Orphan Master’s Son, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013, follows a North Korean man struggling to survive amid the cruelty and madness of a modern totalitarian regime.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Pulitzer Prize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pulitzer%20Prize. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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