Steve Starr of Associated Press, Albany, New York Bureau, for his news photo taken of militant black students following their takeover of Willard Straight Hall Cornell University, Campus Guns.
•
Seymour M. Hersh of the Dispatch News Service, Washington, D.C. For his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai.
•
Time's Encomium by Charles Wuorinen (C. F. Peters)
Premiered in its entirety at the Berkshire Music Festival on August 16, 1969.
Nobel Prize | Pulitzer Prize | 1970 | Nobel Peace Prize | Nobel Prize in Literature | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 1970 in music | Nobel prize | Archibald Prize | Turner Prize | Joseph Pulitzer | 1970 FIFA World Cup | Nobel Prize in Physics | Man Booker Prize | 1970 in baseball | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | USSR State Prize | United Kingdom general election, 1970 | Mercury Prize | Israel Prize | Humanitas Prize | Goldman Environmental Prize | Rome Prize | Pushcart Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Lenin Prize | 1970–71 in English football | Love Story (1970 film) | List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction |
McGrady co-edited the project with his Newsday colleague Harvey Aronson, and among the other collaborators were well-known writers including 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Goltz, 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert W. Greene, and journalist Marilyn Berger.