2017 Pulitzer Prize totals to eleven and four respectively. The "East Bay Times" won Breaking News Reporting, bringing its total to three prizes. The Salt Lake Tribune won its second Pulitzer. The Charleston Gazette-Mail won its first prize for the combined newspaper. 2017 Pulitzer Prize The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2016 calendar year. Prize winners and nominated finalists were announced by Mike Pride at 3:00 p.m. EST April 10, 2017. "The New York Times" won the most awards of any newspaper, with three, bringing its total to one hundred twelve Pulitzer Prizes. The
Pulitzer Prize for Drama the identity of finalists was first disclosed, three musicals have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. They are: Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's "The Gospel at Colonus" (1985); Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' "In the Heights" (2009); and Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's "Fun Home" (2014). The latter two shows, however, each won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Eugene O'Neill won the Pulitzer for Drama four times, three in the 1920s. Several people have won two or three. The most recipients of the prize in one Prize year was in 1976, when five people—Michael Bennett, James