NYT: Pulitzer Prizes Announced

[DeepModem Mom]

Pulitzer Prizes Announced
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

Published: April 4, 2005


The Los Angeles Times won two Pulitzer Prizes today, including the public service award for a series on an inner-city Los Angeles hospital where medical care sometimes led to injury and death, and The Wall Street Journal won two prizes, one for reporting and one for criticism.

Last year, The Los Angeles Times received five Pulitzers, and while several of the winners announced today were similarly familiar representatives of big-city journalism, a reporter for an alternative newspaper, The Willamette Week of Portland, Ore., received the investigative prize for articles about sexual abuse involving a former Oregon governor.

The New York Times received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for a series by Walt Bogdanich, "Death on the Tracks," which documented how the nation's politically connected railroads failed to take responsibility for fatal accidents, and disclosed the unusually close ties between the railroad industry and its regulators. It was Mr. Bogdanich's second Pulitzer. In 1988, while at The Wall Street Journal, he received the award for a series on faulty testing by medical laboratories....

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The staff of The Star-Ledger of Newark was recognized in the breaking-news category, for its coverage of the resignation of Gov. James E. McGreevey, who left office after acknowledging that he is gay and had had an affair with a former aide.

Julia Keller of The Chicago Tribune was given the Pulitzer for feature writing, for her reconstruction of events when a tornado killed eight people in the small town of Utica, Ill. Reporters from The Los Angeles Times (Kim Murphy, for coverage of the hostage crisis in Beslan, Russia) and Newsday (Dele Olojede, for coverage of Rwandan genocide) shared the award for international reporting....


(Other prizes announced: Amy Dockser Marcus of The Wall Street Journal, beat reporting, articles on cancer survivors; Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, criticism; Tom Philip, Sacramento Bee, editorial writing; Connie Schultz, Cleveland Plain Dealer, commentary; Gareth Cook, Boston Globe, explanatory writing. The Washington Post won no Pulitzers.)


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/04/business/media/04cnd-pulitzer.html?hp

[flamingyouth]

1. Wow! A friend of mine from college worked on the King/Drew series

Excellent work. I'm glad it was recognized by the Pulitzer committee. :toast:

[acmejack]

2. Nice little dig at the WP at the end...

nt

[EFerrari]

3. And nothing for Bill O'Reilly? n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

4. LOL! Not this year -- nt

[bossfish]

6. He DID win a "Metzger"

...just as prestigious, y'know.

[EFerrari]

10. Lol. nt

[candy]

5. Boston Globe-explanatory writing? What the hell is that?

I read The Globe every day and must have missed that part.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. According to LAT, Cook 's coverage of stem cell research...

won the prize for the Boston Globe.

[candy]

9. Thanks !

[indepat]

7. The Washington Post earned no Pulitizers IMHO

[Journeyman]

11. I worked on a weekly newspaper where we gave ourselves awards. . .

every year, we'd honor each other with our picks for the best from the past year. The award itself was a wood plaque with a magnificently mounted rubber chicken, hence the name of the award:

The Pullet Surprise.

[EFerrari]

12. That's so good. lol!

I'm working on a monthly put together by a wonderful homeless advocacy group. Maybe something like that could be cooked up. :)

[sundancekid]

14. let's suggest a version of it for guckert/gannon -- naw, it would be

an insult to the pullet -- nevermind.

[kk897]

13. Had to laugh when I saw Julia Keller won one...

She used to write for my city's paper, The Columbus Dispatch. She was SO self-important and faux-intellectual. My husband and I, and all of our friends, *hated* her work. We were glad to see her go.

Of course, that's not to say that her journalism skills haven't improved in the intervening years. And here, she was sort of an arts/lifestyle commentator, not really the type they'd send to cover a tornado.

[Ms Chicklet]

15. Connie Schultz winning is outstanding

http://www.cleveland.com/schultz/pulitzer/

[adigal]

16. Where's Jeff Gannon's??? Oh, I should look it up

under Guckert, I guess.

[Liberty Belle]

17. Note that an alternate weekly got an award.

See what can happen when you write for a community newspaper?

I've recently begun writing a couple of articles a week for one in our area, even though it's a huge cut in pay from my customary rates as a journalist. Frankly I'd do it for free to get progressive views, or at least fair reporting that shows both sides of an issue, into print.

I urge all of you to do the same.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Please look/read

Deanne Fitzmaurice's photos and Meredith May's stories about Saleh Khalaf: Operation Lion Heart

They'll break your heart, then mend it.

[Tansy_Gold]

19. thank you n/t