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Article: Editorial Pulitzer needs restructuring. (Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing)
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- The Masthead
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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THE TIME HAS COME for Pulitzer Prize officials to make a change in the Editorial Writing award.
The prize is awarded in only one editorial category. The number of categories should be increased to three. We suggest the following:
1. For the most distinguished single editorial published during the year;
2. For the most distinguished series of editorials on a single subject; and
3. For the most distinguished body of editorials on a variety of subjects published throughout the year.
The present one-category system is woefully inadequate in recognizing the variety of purposes and of talents demanded of editorial writing and editorial writers ...