A prize of a weekend
Luminaries from the worlds of journalism, photography, history, and music gathered over the weekend at Harvard to mark the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, in festivities hosted by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis, who won the 2003 Pulitzer for his work “Blood on the Fields,” opened the celebration Saturday evening at Sanders Theatre with a performance by his quintet, following an introduction by Harvard President Drew Faust. (Watch a clip from his rehearsal below) Rehearsing "Cuchifrito" by Carlos Henriquez for @niemanfdn #Pulitzer100 celebration at @Harvard pic.twitter.com/KZQYgm3IbV — Wynton Marsalis (@wyntonmarsalis) September 8, 2016 On Sunday, in readings, conversations, and performances, past prize winners touched on the event’s theme of accountability and abuse of power. Among the speakers was investigative journalism titan Robert Caro, who wrote the masterwork “The Power Broker” about the extraordinary life of Robert Moses, an unelected city planner in New York who wielded...