1958 Pulitzer Prize

Awards for journalism and related fields February 2025 The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1958. Journalism awards thumb|"The Thinker", the prize-winning editorial cartoon thumb|Faith and Confidence, the prize-winning photograph Public Service: The Arkansas Gazette, for demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage in the face of great public tension during the school integration crisis of 1957. The newspaper's fearless and completely objective news coverage, plus its reasoned and moderate policy, did much to restore calmness and order to an overwrought community, reflecting great credit on its editors and its management. Local Reporting, Edition Time: The Fargo Forum, for its swift, vivid and detailed news and picture coverage of a tornado which struck Fargo on June 20. Proceeding under considerable difficulty and overcoming many handicaps, a small but skilled staff put out a complete tornado edition within five hours after the disaster.Dakota paper staff worked as team when tornado hit St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 6, 1958 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57631103/dakota-paper-staff-worked-as-team-when/ Newspapers.com (Part 2 of article) Local Reporting, No Edition Time: George D. Beveridge of the Washington Evening Star, for his excellent and thought-provoking series, "Metro, City of Tomorrow", describing in depth the urban problems of Washington, D.C., which stimulated widespread public consideration of these problems and encouraged further studies by both public and private agencies. National Reporting: Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, for his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance.Prize-winning Mollenhoff stories spurred probes The Des Moines Register May 6, 1958 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57630319/prize-winning-mollenhoff-stories/ Newspapers.com (Part 2 of article) Relman Morin of the Associated Press, for his dramatic and incisive eyewitness report of mob violence on September 23, 1957, during the integration crisis at the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.Relman Morin made grand comeback to win Pulitzer The Paris News Paris, Texas AP Saul Pett May 15, 1958 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57631271/relman-morin-made-grand-comeback-to-win/ Newspapers.comRelman Morin of Associated Press The Pulitzer Prizes https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/relman-morin 2020-08-22Police fight snarling mob Spokane Chronicle AP September 23, 1957 https://www.newspapers.com/article/spokane-chronicle-police-fight-snarling/137310469/ Newspapers.com International Reporting: The New York Times, for its distinguished coverage of foreign news, which was characterized by admirable initiative, continuity and high quality during the year. Editorial Writing: Harry S. Ashmore, executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, for the forcefulness, dispassionate analysis and clarity of his editorials on the school integration conflict in Little Rock.Harry S. Ashmore of Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, AR The Pulitzer Prizes https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/harry-s-ashmore 2020-08-22 Editorial Cartooning: Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News, for "The Thinker", published on August 10, 1957, depicting the dilemma of union membership when confronted by racketeering leaders in some labor unions Photography: William C. Beall of The Washington Daily News, for his photograph Faith and Confidence, showing policeman Maurice Cullinane patiently reasoning with a two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade.William C. Beall of Washington (DC) Daily News https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/william-c-beall www.pulitzer.org The Pulitzer Prizes en 2023-12-27 2022-10-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20221016002525/https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/william-c-beall live Special Citation: Walter Lippmann, nationally syndicated columnist of the New York Herald Tribune, for the wisdom, perception and high sense of responsibility with which he has commented for many years on national and international affairs. Letters, Drama and Music Awards Fiction: A Death in the Family by James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky). Drama: Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings (Samuel French). History: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond (Princeton Univ. Press). Biography or Autobiography: George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas S. Freeman, and Volume VII, written by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Freeman's death in 1953 (Charles Scribner's Sons). Poetry: Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren (Random). Music: Vanessa by Samuel Barber (G. Schirmer), an opera in four acts, libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. First presented January 15, 1958, at the Metropolitan Opera House. References External links Pulitzer Prizes for 1958 https://web.archive.org/web/20110925063344/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1958 September 25, 2011 Category:Pulitzer Prizes by year Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize