1950 Pulitzer Prize
Awards for journalism and related fields
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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:
- Drama:
- History:
- Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart).
- Biography or Autobiography:
- John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf).
- Poetry:
- Music;
- Music in The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti (G. Schirmer), produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.