What makes a Pulitzer Prize winner? The Pulitzer on the Road podcast travels across the country to meet with authors and journalists to share the stories behind their prize-winning work.
Pulitzer on the Road
Each spring, the Pulitzer Prize Board awards fifteen prizes in journalism and eight prizes for books, music, and drama. Rich and insightful discussions lead up to the prize announcements. The Pulitzer on the Road podcast brings the same thought-provoking experience to listeners through discussions between Pulitzer Board members and winning authors and journalists from 2023. Episodes are hosted by Board member Nicole Carroll, professor of practice at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Episodes
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
An interview between Barbara Kingsolver, 2023 Prize winner for Fiction, and Emily Ramshaw of The 19th, on Kingsolver’s farm in Appalachia, about growing up in Appalachia, her life as a writer, and the unforgettable narrator she created in her novel, Demon Copperhead.
To access the transcript and learn more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-barbara-kingsolver-appalachia
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Hundreds of migrant parents and children were separated at the US-Mexico border under a Trump administration policy. Caitlin Dickerson, staff writer for The Atlantic, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. She visits El Paso and talks with Ginger Thompson of ProPublica.
To access the transcript and learn more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-caitlin-dickerson-border
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Hernan Diaz, 2023 Fiction winner, meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Pulitzer board member and himself a previous Fiction winner, in a New York Gilded Age mansion to discuss Trust, Diaz’s novel that explores family, wealth and ambition.
To read the transcript and more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-hernan-diaz-and-viet-thanh-nguyen-conversation
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Jefferson Cowie’s book Freedom’s Dominion gives the history of white Americans fighting for the freedom to dominate others and won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for History. In Eufaula, Alabama, he meets with Kelly Lytle Hernandez, history professor at the University of California Los Angeles.
To access the transcript and learn more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-jefferson-cowie-eufala-alabama
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Mstyslav Chernov and a team of Associated Press journalists captured the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Mariupol. He talks about their award-winning work for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Nancy Barnes of the Boston Globe.
To read the transcript and find out more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-mstyslav-chernov-mariupol
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Hear about how police targeted residents of small town Brookside, Alabama, in aninterview with 2023 Pulitzer winners for Local Reporting, John Archibald and AshleyRemkus at AL.com, and Neil Brown, Pulitzer Board member and president of thePoynter Institute.
To access the transcript and read more about this episode, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-alcom-brookside-alabama
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
The Pulitzer Prizes is launching a Pulitzer on the Road podcast, part of a public programming initiative celebrating the work of Pulitzer Prize-winners with audiences across the country.
The podcast features interviews with 2023 winners in journalism and books, and delves into the stories behind their work.
To learn more about the podcast and guests in this series, visit:
https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/pulitzer-road-podcast-season-one