2017 Pulitzer Prize 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 McClatchy Company, "Miami Herald", and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists won Investigative reporting, leaving them with a total of fifty-four, twenty-two, and one respectively. The "New York Daily News" and ProPublica won the prize in public service, bringing their
Roy J. Harris Jr. Roy J. Harris Jr. Roy J. Harris Jr. (born October 2, 1946) is a reporter and editor who spent most of his career with "The Wall Street Journal". He writes frequently about the journalism Pulitzer Prizes, and is the author of "Pulitzer’s Gold", a book telling the back stories of 100 years of reporting that has won the United States' top journalism prize, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. A regular contributor to the Poynter Institute's website, he does an annual preview prior to the day the Pulitzer Prizes are announced. Harris was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son