Celebrating excellence in journalism and the humanities, Pulitzer Prizes to be awarded Monday | EUROtoday

The Pulitzer Prizes are set to be introduced on Monday, historically essentially the most anticipated day of the yr for these hoping to earn print journalism’s most prestigious honor.

Along with honoring winners and finalists in 15 journalism classes, the Pulitzer Board additionally acknowledges distinguished work in areas together with books, music and theater. The awards, which can honor work from 2023, are scheduled to be introduced through livestream at 3 p.m. Eastern time.

While forecasting potential winners is a guessing sport, the Pulitzers typically go to protection of the yr’s greatest tales. In this case, the Oct. 7 assault on Israel and subsequent battle in Gaza is a chance and should engender controversy.

With the Committee to Protect Journalists estimating no less than 97 journalists and media staff have been killed in Gaza, many observers can be to see if the Pulitzers acknowledge work by Palestinian reporters. Last month a gaggle of journalism professors known as on The New York Times to deal with questions on an investigation into gender-based violence through the Hamas assault on Israel.

The prizes are administered by Columbia University in New York, which itself has been within the information for pupil demonstrations towards the battle in Gaza. The Pulitzer board met away from Columbia this previous weekend to deliberate on its winners.

The board issued an announcement Thursday saluting pupil journalists at Columbia and different universities throughout the nation for his or her work masking the campus demonstrations.

For the primary time, the Pulitzers opened eligibility to broadcast and audio corporations that additionally function digital information websites, comparable to CNN, NPR and the published networks ABC, CBS and NBC. The work should be primarily in digital journalism, nevertheless.

The Columbia Journalism School additionally administers the duPont-Columbia Awards, which acknowledge audio and visible journalism and are introduced within the winter.

The Pulitzers give out money awards and a medal for its prestigious public service prize, gained final yr by The Associated Press for its protection of the Russian siege of Mariupol in Ukraine.

The Pulitzers additionally introduced that 5 of the 45 finalists this yr used synthetic intelligence in analysis and reporting of their submissions. It was the primary time the board required candidates for the award to reveal use of AI.

The prizes had been established within the will of newspaper writer Joseph Pulitzer and first awarded in 1917.

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