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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1950.

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • The Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.
• Local Reporting:
  • Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000-word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.
• National Reporting:
  • Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
• International Reporting:
  • Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored".
• Editorial Writing:
  • Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson Citizen Patriot, for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • James T. Berryman of the Washington Evening Star, for "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington".
• Photography:
  • Bill Crouch of The Oakland Tribune, for his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show".

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Fiction:
  • The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (Sloane).
• Drama:
  • South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan (Random).
• History:
  • Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart).
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf).
• Poetry:
  • Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper).
• Music;
  • Music in The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti (G. Schirmer), produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.

References

1. "Two reporters dug up 'shameful chapter in American journalism'". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 2, 1950 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
2. "Worked 6 months to get evidence to clear professor of red charge". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 2, 1950 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
3. "Tribune photographer wins Pulitzer Prize for news picture of near collision of airplanes". The Oakland Tribune. May 2, 1950 – via Newspapers.com.

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