2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Some highlights:

Public service goes to Washington Post for Jan. 6 coverage
Breaking news goes to Miami Herald for condo collapse stories
Special citation to the journalists of Ukraine

full list:

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Thank you for sharing.

 

But is it Pew-Lit-Zer or Pull-It-Sir?

 

Fox News wonders why Hunter Biden was ignored

 

State of the Board: Three total posts.

 

Sad, but not surprising. The first was a thank you, the second funny, the third biased.

 

I don't think it says as much about the board as it does the industry as a whole. Awards are generally for resume padding and once you get to a certain point, it really doesn't matter. Pulitzers are one of the few exceptions to that.

Also, on a related note, I haven't been an APSE finalist in a decade and no, I am totally not bitter about it.

 

I always check to see if any former colleagues won anything. Been lucky enough to attend an announcement that a paper I worked at won one. (It was my first day no less - got a close up look at the medal a few years later). And I am glad the board has broadened their scope to include magazines and podcasts. Still - the Pulitzers are kind of like the CFP, you see the same "teams" every year, with an occasional little guy invited to the table. And its only gotten worse. Used to be more than a few major metros were competitive outside of DC and NY and didn't require a local disaster to win a prize.

 

Great story at the O.C. Register, which won a photography Pulitzer for its 1984 Olympics coverage. It was the first day for a new employee. He arrives for work and a current employee is asked to show him around the building. They're in the newsroom when the Pulitzer announcement is made. The staff goes nuts, popping champagne corks, spraying it everywhere, people riding around on each others shoulder. The newbie asks his guide, "What's going on?" The guide says, "It's payday."

 

Are you saying that Pulitzer board is parochial and favors the New York Times and a couple other large metros or that staffs have been decimated at most papers that there is no way in hell a staffer has the time or resources to develop a Pulitzer worthy story?

 

Papers I was at won multiple Pulitzers. But I was never about personal prizes or that annual award bullshit.

Maybe because the one time I went after a design award, like 25 years ago, with some really nice display work on news, sports and feature fronts, I found that submission package in my supervisor's trash can three days later. What an asshole she was, and she didn't last long in the biz anyway. ... Didn't really care, or pursue, awards after that. The real work, the daily newpaper, was our mission and our primary focus back then.

Anyway, I was happy enough (almost) to do my part a few times in support roles when we won the Pulitzers.

The ones we lost, though, are still baffling. Those works were better than most of our winners.

 

Why did she put it in the trash can?