2018 Pulitzer Prize 2018 Pulitzer Prize The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2017 calendar year. Prize winners and nominated finalists were announced by Dana Canedy at 3:00 p.m. EST on April 16, 2018. "The New York Times" won the most awards of any newspaper, with three, bringing its total to one hundred and twenty-five Pulitzer Prizes. "The Washington Post" won Investigative Reporting and National Reporting, the latter of which was shared with the "New York Times". "The New York Times" and "The New Yorker" won the prize in public service, bringing their totals to
Joseph Pulitzer In 1902, Columbia's new president Nicholas Murray Butler was more receptive to the plan for a school and journalism prizes, but it would not be until after Pulitzer's death that this dream would be fulfilled. Pulitzer left the university $2,000,000 in his will. In 1912 the school founded the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. This followed the Missouri School of Journalism, founded at the University of Missouri with Pulitzer's urging. Both schools remain among the most prestigious in the world. In 1917, Columbia organized the awards of the first Pulitzer Prizes in journalism. The awards have been expanded to