A Pulitzer Prize Winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or a newspaper's staff.
Nominated Finalists are selected by the Nominating Juries for each category as finalists in the competition. The Pulitzer Prize Board generally selects the Pulitzer Prize Winners from the three nominated finalists in each category. The names of nominated finalists have been announced only since 1980. Work that has been submitted for Prize consideration but not chosen as either a nominated finalist or a winner is termed an entry or submission. No information on entrants is provided.
The Public Service prize is always awarded to a newspaper, not an individual, although an individual may be named in the citation.
The Pulitzer Prize Board may elect to bestow No Award in a category in any given year.
On rare occasions The Pulitzer Prize Board will award a Special Award or Citation to a work or an individual of particular merit.
