Donald McNeil Jr. is claiming The New York Times defended him to the Pulitzer Prize committee and told them he is not racist in order to secure its award for tis reporting on the COVID pandemic.

Oded Balilty is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he began his career as a photographer for the Israeli army magazine Bamahane. In 2002, at the height of the second Palestinian uprising, Balilty joined the Associated Press.

Mark O’Connell has a pair of rather light-hearted but informative posts for us. In the title article, Mark describes his role as “Pulitzer (self)nominee” for his recent biography of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, The Close Encounters Man. With The Strange Case of the Left-Handed UFO–Part IV, Mark probes how to test whether there are unusually […]

Kendrick Lamar added another prestigious award to his already staggering list of accolades, and it’s a big one. On Monday (April 16), The Pulitzer Prize Board announced that the 30-year-old rapper would take home the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 2017 album DAMN. According to the New York Times…

The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set off a worldwide …

Trump administration officials and allies were out in force this week promoting the story that Susan Rice, national security adviser in the Obama administration, requested the names of Americans who were caught up in surveillance of Russian officials during last year’s presidential campaign and transition. The most recent, and enthusiastic, endorsement came from Donald Trump, Jr., […]

Eugene O’Neill was a famed playwright and the mind behind “Anna Christie,” a gripping play that chronicles the life of a woman who is torn between her captain father and sailor lover and her past secrets. From Dec. 2 through 17, the play is being revived at NYC’s The Wild Project. Originally…

Edward Albee ushered in a new era of American drama with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Three Tall Women.”

Sydney Schanberg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who reported on the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, has died at the age of 82.