Codice albumGBB-F-005314

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1905 ca, NEW YORK, USA : The hungarian-merican journalist, politician and pubblisher JOSEPH PULITZER (1847 - 1911). Newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected Congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York. Today, he is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes, which were established in 1917 by money he bequeathed to Columbia University to recognize artistic and journalistic achievements. The prizes are given annually to award achievements in journalism and photography, as well as literature and history, poetry, music and drama. Pulitzer founded the Columbia School of Journalism by his philanthropic bequest; it opened in 1912

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