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The following are the
Pulitzer Prizes
for 1957.
Journalism awards
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"Wonder Why My Parents Didn't Give Me Salk Shots?", the prize-winning editorial cartoon
The "key" picture in Trask's prize-winning photographic sequence of the sinking of the
Andrea Doria
- Public Service
:
- The
Chicago Daily News
, for determined and courageous public service in exposing a $6.15 million fraud operating in the office of the
State Auditor of Illinois
resulting in the indictment, conviction, and imprisonment of State Auditor
Orville Hodge
and others. This led to an overhaul of State procedures to prevent any recurrence of the fraud.
- Local Reporting, Edition Time
:
- Local Reporting, No Edition Time
:
- National Reporting
:
- James Reston
of
The New York Times
, for his distinguished national correspondence, including both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of
President Eisenhower's
illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
- International Reporting
:
- Russell Jones
of
United Press International
, for his excellent and sustained coverage of the
Hungarian revolt
against Communist domination, during which he worked at great personal risk within Russian-held Budapest and gave front-line eyewitness reports of the ruthless Soviet repression of the Hungarian people.
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- Editorial Writing
:
- Buford Boone
of the
Tuscaloosa News
, for his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, "
What A Price For Peace
", published on February 7, 1956.
- Editorial Cartooning
:
- Photography
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- Harry A. Trask of the
Boston Traveler
, for his dramatic and outstanding photographic sequence of the sinking of the liner
SS Andrea Doria
, the pictures being taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet only nine minutes before the ship plunged to the bottom. (The second picture in the sequence is cited as the key photograph.)
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
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References
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"Tribune staff captures Pulitzer reporting prize"
.
The Salt Lake Tribune
. May 7, 1957.
Archived
from the original on April 29, 2024
. Retrieved
August 18,
2020
– via Newspapers.com.
(
Part 2 of article
Archived
2024-04-29 at the
Wayback Machine
)
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"Portland crime conspiracy exposed by The Oregonian"
.
The Oregonian
. April 3, 2013.
Archived
from the original on 2020-10-22
. Retrieved
2020-08-18
.
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"Didn't take big risks says Russ Jones of story"
.
Ukiah Daily Journal
. United Press. May 8, 1957.
Archived
from the original on April 29, 2024
. Retrieved
August 19,
2020
– via Newspapers.com.
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"Cartoon by Tom Little wins Pulitzer Prize"
.
The Nashville Tennessean
. May 7, 1957.
Archived
from the original on April 29, 2024
. Retrieved
August 19,
2020
– via Newspapers.com.
(
Part 2 of article
Archived
2024-04-29 at the
Wayback Machine
)
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