This year, the Pulitzer Prize will celebrate its 100th anniversary. On Monday鈥檚 St. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh discussed how the award and the journalism it is meant to highlight has changed over the years.
Joining the program were Jon Sawyer, Executive Director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and Margie Freivogel, former Executive Editor of 漏 2024 外网天堂. Later this week, the prize鈥檚 anniversary .
鈥淭he Pulitzer, almost from the beginning, has represented the best in journalism,鈥� said Sawyer. 鈥淥ver time, given the types of journalists honored by the prize, it has only received greater luster. We are in a period of wrenching transition in the news media. The Pulitzer Prizes are more important than ever in upholding quality journalism at its very best.鈥�
Freivogel and Sawyer reflected on just how much journalism has changed in the past 100 years, what makes good journalism today, the Pulitzer Prize鈥檚 struggle with diversity and the challenge of reporting on the 2016 presidential election. Listen to the full conversation here:
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