2010 Pulitzer Prize myopia" and "failure to appreciate new directions in playwriting" for overlooking the three plays that were not running on Broadway at the time of the Award in favor of one that was. 2010 Pulitzer Prize The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday, April 12, 2010. In journalism, "The Washington Post" won four awards while "The New York Times" won three. For the first time, an online source, "ProPublica", won in what had previously been the sole province of print. A musical, "Next to Normal", won the Drama award for the first time in 14 years. Country singer-songwriter Hank Williams,
Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer Joseph J. Pulitzer (; ; born József Pulitzer; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a newspaper publisher of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" and the "New York World". He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his "World" and William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal" caused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which won over readers with sensationalism, sex, crime and graphic