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THE Pulitzer prizes in letters and journalism for the current year were announced on May 3 by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. Among the awards was a prize of one thousand dollars to five members of the National Association of Science Writers, all of whom have reported the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for many years. The award, “for the most distinguished example of a reporter's work”, was given in recognition of their accomplishments in connexion with the tercentenary celebration of Harvard University. The criteria on which the award is made are “strict accuracy, terseness, the preference being given to stories prepared under the pressure of edition time that redound to the credit of journalism”. Those sharing the reward are: Howard W. Blakeslee, Associated Press, president; William L. Laurence, New York Times, vice-president; David Dietz, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, past president; Gobond Behari Lai, Universal Service; and John J. O'Neill, New York Herald-Tribune. The work of reporting the celebration was carefully organized in advance by the Harvard authorities in co-operation with the National Association of Science Writers, the president of the University, Dr. Conant, giving personal attention to the matter. The result was eminently satisfactory, and the award of the Pulitzer prize to the five writers mentioned is an encouraging mark of appreciation of the way in which a great university function was described in the periodical press.
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Pulitzer Prize for Science Reporters. Nature 139, 873 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139873c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139873c0