1962 Pulitzer Prize

Awards for journalism and related fields February 2025 thumb|The prize-winning cartoon, "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine" thumb|The prize-winning photograph, "Serious Steps" The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1962. Journalism awards Public Service: The Panama City News-Herald, for its three-year campaign against entrenched power and corruption, with resultant reforms in Panama City, Florida, and Bay County, Florida.News Herald Pulitzer Prize winner dies Panama City News Herald S. Brady Calhoun September 27, 2012 https://www.newsherald.com/article/20120927/news/309279998 2020-08-21 Local Reporting, Edition Time: Robert D. Mullins of the Deseret News (Salt Lake City) for his resourceful coverage of a murder and kidnapping at Dead Horse Point, Utah.Dogged pursuit of story paid off Deseret News Joe Bauman July 4, 2006 https://www.deseret.com/2006/7/4/19962053/deseret-news-pulitzer-prize-robert-bob-mullins-1961-salt-lake-telegram 2020-08-21 Local Reporting, No Edition Time: George Bliss of the Chicago Tribune, for his initiative in uncovering scandals in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, with resultant remedial action.Pulitzer Prize won by Bliss of the Tribune Chicago Daily Tribune May 8, 1962 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57804925/pulitzer-prize-won-by-bliss-of-the/ Newspapers.com National Reporting: Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham of the Nashville Tennessean, for their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers.2 Tennessean writers share Pulitzer Prize The Nashville Tennessean May 8, 1962 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57805512/2-tennessean-writers-share-pulitzer/ Newspapers.com (Part 2 of article) International Reporting: Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, for his 1961 interview with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, as illustrative of Lippmann's long and distinguished contribution to American journalism. Editorial Writing: Thomas M. Storke of the Santa Barbara News-Press, for his forceful editorials calling public attention to the activities of a semi-secret organization known as the John Birch Society. Editorial Cartooning: Edmund S. Valtman of the Hartford Times, for "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine", published on August 31, 1961. Photography: Paul Vathis of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, bureau of the Associated Press, for the photograph, "Serious Steps", published April 22, 1961.Associated Press photographer wins for picture of Ike, JFK The Odessa American May 8, 1962 AP https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57806684/associated-press-photographer-wins-for/ Newspapers.com Letters, drama and music awards Fiction: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little). Drama: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows. History: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson (Alfred A. Knopf). Biography or Autobiography: No award given. The advisory board selected Citizen Hearst by W. A. Swanberg, but the trustees of Columbia University vetoed this selection.Columbia withholds a Pulitzer Detroit Free Press May 11, 1962 AP https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57806451/columbia-withholds-a-pulitzer/ Newspapers.com Poetry: Poems by Alan Dugan (Yale Univ. Press). General Nonfiction: The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White (Atheneum). Music: The Crucible, an opera in three acts by Robert Ward; libretto by Bernard Stambler, based on the play by Arthur Miller. First performed at New York City Center, on October 26, 1961, by the New York City Opera Company. References External links Pulitzer Prizes for 1962. Category:Pulitzer Prizes by year Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize