Pulitzers 2020

The Anchorage, Alaska paper's series on the small towns that either don't have any police protection or have hired registered sex offenders and other criminals as cops is a tremendous read. Be prepared to have your blood pressure spike.

 

Ted Cruz.

But, there were plenty others making a stink.

 

I'd love to get a judge's take on why the series wasn't included. Did the publication dates not follow the rules? Did it not make a big enough impact?

 

Why didn't The Miami Herald win for Epstein? Because it was published in 2018.

That happens sometimes, where work from a previous year (2018) becomes more widely known and respected the following year (2019), so people are mystified when it doesn't win (2020).

Theoretically, you could submit again, with new work as the entry, and older work as supplemental material, explaining it all in the entry letter. I have no idea whether the Herald tried that.

 

Bad timing. Brown did win a Polk award for her coverage, so there's that.

 

The door is wide open for a 2021 Pulitzer in Southern Oklahoma then.

 

Some of the winners were Gannett properties so you’re onto something

 

Indeed. The prize money will likely go to the hedge fund managers as part of debt repayment.

 

Mike Keefe won the Pulitzer for cartooning in 2011 and was let go by DFM at teh Denver Post the same year.

And I think that Matt Wuerker was laid off from Gannett in the same year he was a cartoonist finalist. I am not 100% sure, though.

 

He was laid off from Gannett but landed at Politico, and he seems to be doing pretty well for himself. Cartooning for Politico seems comfy.