Andrew Beaujon
May 15, 2013
10:13 am
Columbia University announced Wednesday that Tampa Bay Times chairman and CEO Paul Tash will chair the Pulitzer Prize board. Tash became a member of the board in 2006. Chairmen serve for one year, while board members serve a maximum of nine years.
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- Tash in 2011. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Tash, a former editor of the Times, replaces Denver Post Editor Gregory Moore and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, who served as co-chairs.
Poynter owns the Tampa Bay Times; Tash is also chairman of Poynter's board of trustees. The Tampa Bay Times' Tim Nickens and Daniel Ruth
won a Pulitzer last month for a series of editorials on fluoride in drinking water, and its writers Alexandra Zayas and Kelley Benham were finalists in two other categories. The paper has nine Pulitzers.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 16, 2013
4:23 pm
Discussion of the
winners and finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prizes was muted Monday, as news producers and consumers turned their attention to the bombings in Boston. But 24 hours later, enough time has passed for a little journo-navel-gazing:
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What does it take for women to win Pulitzers? Before 1991, a graduate degree and a Northeastern upbringing helped, University of Missouri professor Yong Volz and Chinese University of Hong Kong professor Francis L. F. Lee write in a new study. The study,
which I first wrote about in October, was published by Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly earlier this month.
Those advantages compensated for a historical bias against women both in newsrooms and in prize competitions, Volz and Lee write. Statistics showed them the importance of those advantages lessened after 1991, but "
gender disadvantage has not completely disappeared," they write.
Even after 1991, only 26.9% of all Pulitzer winners in journalism were females. The percentage is lower than the percentage of females in American newsrooms, which stands at about 33%.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 16, 2013
11:57 am
Javier Manzano was "shocked" when he found out
he had won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
“To be honest, I am still having a bit of trouble processing the magnitude of the recognition,” Manzano, a freelancer for Agence France-Presse, said by email Tuesday morning. “I feel privileged to be [in] the company of my colleagues who also work as freelancers in some of the most challenging environments with little or no outside support.”
Freelancers have won Pulitzer prizes in the past, but not nearly as often as full-time journalists have. Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler told Poynter that it's been 17 years since a freelance photographer won a Pulitzer. (Two freelance photographers -- Charles Porter IV and Stephanie Welsh -- won in 1996.)
Manzano won for a photo of two rebel soldiers guarding their sniper’s nest in Aleppo, as light streams through bullet holes in the wall behind them. Karmel Jabl, the neighborhood in which Manzano captured the photo, separates many of the major battlegrounds in Aleppo.
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Roy Peter Clark
Apr. 15, 2013
3:42 pm
My usual pride in the Poynter Institute derives from its benign influence on journalists across the globe. Such influence may flow from a seminar or conference, an online course, or work published on this website. We teach journalism in the … Read more
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Taylor Miller Thomas
Apr. 15, 2013
3:26 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 15, 2013
2:01 pm
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Roy J. Harris Jr.
Apr. 15, 2013
7:00 am
About a half-dozen journalism organizations have already weighed in on their versions of 2012’s best reporting, commentary and press photography. Today at 3 p.m. ET, it’s the Pulitzer Prize Board’s turn — for the 97th time — to announce the … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 26, 2013
11:47 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 22, 2013
9:32 am
Quartz
Laura Amico is among
the people jurying this year's Pulitzer Prizes, Quartz's Zachary M. Seward and David Yanofsky report. The cofounder of Homicide Watch, they say, joins a slate of jury members that includes a number of people whose news organizations or jobs tilt digital, including Rachel Smolkin of Politico, Wall Street Journal digital honcho Raju Narisetti and Cate Barron of The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News, which like some other Advance properties has
reduced its print frequency and increased its focus on digital newsgathering.
Homicide Watch, which Amico runs with her husband, Chris Amico, tracks individual murders in Washington, D.C., and in January
announced plans to expand to Chicago.
Online-only publications became eligible for Pulitzers in 2008, and
the prize criteria was broadened in 2009 to make it more inclusive of digital work. Since then,
PolitiFact,
ProPublica and
Huffington Post have all won the top journalism prize.
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