June 4: Pulitzer Anniversary

The Pulitzer Prizes now turn 100 years. A century has past since 1917 when the first Pulitzer Prizes was awarded:
In 1917 Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
The Prize will become one of the greatest prizes in human history.
Maltese journalist, Matthew Caruana Galizia, is part of a team working for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on the Panama Papers who has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting.