On Monday, the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced. This was the first year that online-only entrants were allowed, but sorry, none won.

Pulitzer-prize winning novelist John Updike has passed away due to lung cancer. He was 76.

The 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced today by Columbia University.

News stories about corruption in the United States and the drawbacks to China's explosive economic growth are among the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winners, the top annual U.S. journalism awards.