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The Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious award given out each year in 21 categories related to journalism, literature, and music composition. Established in 1917 through the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it is administered by Columbia University and aims to reward achievements in newspaper, magazine, and online publishing as well as literary and musical works. Winners receive a certificate and cash prize, though the award for public service journalism is a gold medal.

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The Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious award given out each year in 21 categories related to journalism, literature, and music composition. Established in 1917 through the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it is administered by Columbia University and aims to reward achievements in newspaper, magazine, and online publishing as well as literary and musical works. Winners receive a certificate and cash prize, though the award for public service journalism is a gold medal.

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The Pulitzer Prize (/ˈpʊlɪtsər/[1]) is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature,

and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-
born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia
University in New York City.[2] Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner
receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017).[3] The winner in the public service
category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.[4][5]

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