100 years of Pulitzer Prize data shows racial and gender disparities: 84% of Pulitzer winners in the last 100 years have been white

Analyzing 100 years of data on Pulitzer Prize winners, Columbia Journalism Review found that Pulitzer winners are growing more diverse, but that progress is moving very slowly. CJR’s analysis found that 84 percent of Pulitzer winners over the last 100 years have been white, and only 30 African Americans have won. But despite the racial disparity, women are starting to catch up: 16 percent of Pulitzer winners in the last 100 years were women, but in the last decade, women have won nearly a third of the journalism prizes.

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