2014 Pulitzer Prize 2014 Pulitzer Prize The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2013 calendar year. The deadline for entries was January 25, 2014. Prize winners and nominated finalists were announced on April 14, 2014. "The Washington Post" and "The Guardian US" shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, often considered the top prize for journalism. The two papers were honored for their coverage of the disclosures about surveillance done by the US National Security Agency. Edward Snowden, who leaked security documents to the two newspapers, said the award was "vindication for everyone who believes
Pulitzer Prize for Drama "" to receive the prize, but due to the board's opposition no award was given. In 1955 Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. pressured the prize jury into presenting the Prize to "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", which the jury considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees ("amateurishly constructed... from the stylistic points of view annoyingly pretentious"), instead of Clifford Odets' "The Flowering Peach" (their preferred choice) or "The Bad Seed", their second choice. Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by that award's committee. However, the committee's selection was overruled by