The Newspaper World > The Pulitzer Prize
Pomeroy Burton
Members of the Staff will Please Note
New York, mimeographed typed document, July 13, 1899
World Papers, Box 12
With this notice, Acting City Editor Pomeroy Burton announced to the staff of the World that cash prizes would be given “from time to time, to those who produce the best results in the paper.” Thus began what has become Joseph Puliltzer’s most famous legacy, The Pulitzer Prize.
Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.