The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1991. The year is significant because not only were awards given for all categories, but two separate awards were given for International Reporting.
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- Des Moines Register, For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped --which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.
- Spot News Reporting:
- Staff of Miami Herald, For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
- Investigative Reporting:
- Explanatory Journalism:
- Beat Reporting:
- National Reporting:
- International Reporting:
- International Reporting:
- Feature Writing:
- Commentary:
- Jim Hoagland of Washington Post, For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
- Criticism:
- David Shaw of Los Angeles Times, For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.
- Editorial Writing:
- Editorial Cartooning:
- Spot News Photography:
- Greg Marinovich of Associated Press, For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.
- Feature Photography:
Letters awards
Arts awards
Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on October 19, 1990.
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