A surname.
pulitzer
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pulitzer.
Editorial note
Just because a newspaper receives a Pulitzer Prizes does not mean that it has no bias, or does not make mistakes.
Quick take
A surname.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of pulitzer gathered in one view.
Ellipsis of Pulitzer Prize. [An annual American award given for journalism, literature, and music]
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for pulitzer.
noun
A surname.
noun
Ellipsis of Pulitzer Prize. [An annual American award given for journalism, literature, and music]
Example sentences
Just because a newspaper receives a Pulitzer Prizes does not mean that it has no bias, or does not make mistakes.
The true reason why blogs are beating regualar newspapers is because newspapers are trying too hard to win pulitzer prizes.
It's the Man Booker Prize winner for 2014, which is more or less the British equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize.
So it looks like the NYTimes isn't going to win a Pulitzer on this one?
As for Rupert Murdoch, even though he's never won a Pulitzer Prize, he's a perfect fit for the legacy of Joseph Pulitzer and the politically-biased, sensationalist yellow journalism he made his fame and fortune from.
It attracts front page attention, massive follow-up coverage, and Pulitzer prizes.
And I am not commenting on the 'fact checking industry' I'm commenting on the pulitzer prize winning work of a single organization.
Now I wouldn't award Arrington a Pulitzer for online journalism just yet but I would say this is a step in the right direction.
I'm a frequent defender of BuzzFeed as a legit news source...they've hired several colleagues and friends of mine and there are multiple Pulitzer winners among their large data/investigations team.
He is an inspiration to me due to his ability to straddle two worlds: his day job was mainly as an insurance executive, but he flowered late and won a Pulitzer for his poetry.
I remember that Hipstamatic and its filters was all the rage among my amateur cameraphotographer friends...it was so dominant that Pulitzer Prize-winner Damon Winter of the New York Times used it in his war photography [1].
He is the author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which won him a Pulitzer Prize as well as Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.
Quote examples
A Pulitzer Prize winning organization whose "Lie of the Year" was proven to be false, and who probably knew it was a lie when they wrote it?
On the other hand the implied story "Opus Dei secretly in control of (or heavily influencing) America's special operations arm" would be news, Sy Hersh-winning-a-Pulitzer kind of news...
According to Wikipedia: "The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction[1] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction." Current and former startupistas may be reminded by the book, of some aspects of their life/work-styles, whether good or bad.
Proper noun examples
A best seller that got there by word of mouth, and was within an inch of a Pulitzer.
Writing about some visualization a tool showed you doesn't win you a Pulitzer.
Coding is collaborative, no-one's a Pulitzer-prize author working out of a cave.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use pulitzer in a sentence?
Just because a newspaper receives a Pulitzer Prizes does not mean that it has no bias, or does not make mistakes.
What does pulitzer mean?
A surname.
What part of speech is pulitzer?
pulitzer is commonly used as noun.