Roger Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, the first film critic to receive the award.

nprfunfacts:

two thumbs up.

latimes:

Congratulations to our Pulitzer Prize winners! The Los Angeles Times received the top prizes in the Public Service and Feature Photography categories.

Now, time for some champagne…

Photo: The Times’ newsroom. Credit: Los Angeles Times Tumblr

Congrats!

Our guest today won a Pulitzer! Amy Nutt won today in the category of Feature Writing.

Also Eric Foner won for History and Siddhartha Mukherjee won for General Nonfiction.

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