Pulitzer Pride
Ohio University alumni, students and faculty have won or shared in at least 60 Pulitzer Prizes.
Pulitzer Pride
Recent Pulitzer Winners
Four OHIO Alumni win Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and photojournalism
Four Ohio University alumni won Pulitzer Prizes for their coverage of major news, including three for their efforts to cover the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol building.
Drew Angerer, BSVC ’12
Angerer and a team of colleagues from Getty Images won in the Breaking News Photography category for “comprehensive and consistently riveting photos of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.”
Amanda Voisard, BSVC ’02
Voisard captured photos inside the Capitol during the riots for the Washington Post's “comprehensive coverage of the January 6 insurrection.”
Marcus Yam
Yam of the Los Angeles Times won a Breaking News Photography Pulitzer for his “raw and urgent images of the U.S. departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country.”
Matt Zapotosky, BSJ ’08
Zapotosky was part of the team that won the Pulitzer for “comprehensive coverage of the January 6 insurrection.”
OHIO Pulitzer Winners Since 1973
The below infographic was created by Scripps College of Communication graduate student Kwamina Edonu. Download Edodu's complete infographic, Pulitzer Prize Winning Scripps Alumni & Faculty of Ohio University (PDF).
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Live from AthensStudent-led sports broadcasting gives Bobcats, like TNT’s lead NBA reporter Allie LaForce, BSJ ’11, a front-row seat to real-world experience—and a fast track to professional success.
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WOUB Experience Helped Launch Successful BusinessAlumnus Charlie Kendall said his real-world experience as an OHIO student helped him run a successful production company for nearly three decades.
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Alumna Wins 2024-25 Hearst Journalism Awards Podcast CompetitionSophia Young was one of three Ohio University journalism students and three visual communication majors who placed in the top 20 this year.
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Alumnus and Pulitzer Prize Winner Inducted Into NABJ Hall of FameMilbert O. Brown Jr., MA ’82, who studied photography at Ohio University and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, was recently announced as a 2024 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame inductee.
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