Steve Myers
Apr. 16, 2012
9:09 pm
The Philadelphia Inquirer has been in the news a lot lately, but on Monday it was for the right reasons: the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for its investigation into violence in city schools.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 16, 2012
5:40 pm
David Wood, who won the
Huffington Post’s first Pulitzer Prize today, says it’s a testament to the newsroom’s willingness to let reporters spend time on stories that have an impact.
“It’s an affirmation of what Arianna said: ‘You can do great journalism from any platform,’” said Wood, who started his career in 1970. “The [strategies] I used then were exactly the ones I used in this story -- to think about your subject, to ask good questions, to be a continuously good listener and to go deep.”
Wood -- who joined the Huffington Post
last year and is now its senior military correspondent -- won the Pulitzer for national reporting for his “
Beyond the Battlefield” series, which looks at the challenges severely wounded soldiers face when returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq.
In a phone interview, Wood talked about his series, which he spent eight months working on.
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Steve Myers
Apr. 16, 2012
3:09 pm
Columbia University has named its 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners. Huffington Post and Politico each won their first Pulitzers, for national reporting and editorial cartooning, respectively. The New York Times won two awards, and the Philadelphia Inquirer won for Public Service after a difficult year. The Associated Press won for an investigation into NYPD practices. Below is a list of the winners and finalists with links to their honored work and their own coverage of their victories.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 16, 2012
3:03 pm
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Roy J. Harris Jr.
Apr. 13, 2012
10:10 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 2, 2012
2:37 pm
IRE | ASNE | Scripps Howard Foundation | Polk Awards
When the American Society of News Editors awards were announced this evening (full list below), they bolstered the pack of awards-winners heading toward the Pulitzer Prizes, which will be announced April 16. While I don't have anywhere near Roy J. Harris Jr.'s
ability to handicap those, even a quick spin through what's won so far gives a glimpse of the work that's most frequently caught judges' eyes.
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California Watch's "On Shaky Ground" series won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal and a Scripps Howard Foundation Public Service Reporting Award, and it was a finalist for the Online News Association's awards as well. California Watch also got a Polk Award for
"Decoding Prime." Worth noting: California Watch has a similar business model to ProPublica, which won a
Pulitzer Prize for national reporting last year. Both organizations are nonprofits that focus on investigative reporting and share their content with other publishers.
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Steve Myers
Jan. 31, 2012
1:56 pm
The Pulitzer Prizes
Some Pulitzer hopefuls -- perhaps those who enter year after year? -- didn't realize the entry deadline had been moved up to Jan. 25 from Feb. 1. A post on the Pulitzer website explains:
We have learned that some entrants, relying on past practice, innocently missed the deadline. We are providing some relief by re-opening the entry site on Feb. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. eastern time. Submissions must be made during that time frame. Thereafter, no entry for 2012 will be accepted.
Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, told me by email that the new deadline was well-publicized. "We sent out a
press release, an AP advisory and posted the change on our Pulitzer website and the entry site." Still, he assumed some entrants might not notice, and indeed a half-dozen entrants missed the deadline -- even after the Jan. 25 cutoff was extended to 5 p.m. the next day.
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Steve Myers
Dec. 1, 2011
8:23 am
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Julie Moos
Oct. 26, 2011
1:44 pm
Columbia University
The 20-member Pulitzer Prize board has two new members: Bloomberg News Managing Editor Robert Blau and University of Pennsylvania historian Steven Hahn. Blau has served twice as a juror and shared in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects; Hahn has not been a juror but is a Pulitzer Prize winner himself. Leaving the board are Stanford history professor David Kennedy and Amanda Bennett, executive editor of Bloomberg News. The board oversees the Pulitzer Prizes; 21 are awarded annually in April based on judges' recommendations.
This year's co-chairs are Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the AP, Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski, and Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss.
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Jim Romenesko
June 21, 2011
3:22 pm
Romenesko Misc.
A Pulitzer release calls Margaret Sullivan "a proponent of investigative reporting and journalistic service to the community." (She joins
this group.) Sullivan has been Buffalo News editor since 1999. (Meanwhile, the
campaign for The Onion to win a Pulitzer continues.)
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