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									August 4, 1997


All Pulitzer Prizes Are Now On Line

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New Website Lists Winners from 1917 to Present

	For the first time, all the Pulitzer Prizes awarded since the first in 1917 are
on line, on the Web at http://www.pulitzer.org.
	The redesigned website, offered by the Columbia Journalism Review
 and the Center for New Media of Columbia University's Graduate School of 
Journalism, provides a complete database, with sound and pictures, listing all 
Pulitzer recipients in journalism, letters, drama and music in the prizes' 81 
years.  Included are descriptions of all award-winning work in journalism and, 
for the past three years, the texts of articles, winning cartoons, photographs and 
the names of the judges.  Users can also hear excerpts of the three musical 
compositions that won since 1995.  
	The site is fully searchable by year, name of prize category, winner, 
newspaper, book, play, composition or words of an award description.  All the 
prizes given in any one year can be summoned by a single click on the site's 
special Timeline feature.
	"There is a very broad interest in the Pulitzer Prizes," said Seymour 
Topping, administrator of the prizes, "and we're trying to reach the general 
public and the journalism community with this more concise and efficient 
presentation of the data.  We would like the actual works, which represent the 
best in the profession, to be seen by all."
	The archive was created, with support from CJR, by Danielle Fino and 
John McGrath, recent graduates, and Andrew Lih of the Center for New Media.  The 
Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University on the recommendation
of the Pulitzer Prize Board.  
	Columbia Journalism Review, published bimonthly by the Graduate 
School of Journalism, is the nation's monitor of print, broadcast and online news.  It 
can be reached on the Web at http://www.cjr.org.

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