The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary is an award administered by the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism sch ...
"for distinguished commentary, using any available journalistic tool".
[ It is one of the fourteen American ]Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...
that are annually awarded for Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...
. It has been presented since . Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily with two others beside the winner.[
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Winners and citations
The Commentary Pulitzer has been awarded to one person annually without exception—45 prizes in 44 years 1970–2014. No person has won it twice.[
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Commentary
Opinion journalism
Awards established in 1970