2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Also “Network.”

 

The major metro I worked at for more than 20 years finally won its first Pulitzer in 2013 -- and deservedly so -- five years after I left. In the midst of the newsroom celebration, news of the Boston Marathon bombing broke. That ended the party.

And on another occasion in the late '90s, management was so confident it would win a Pulitzer for an investigative project that the champagne was on ice. But when the announcement came, we were a runner-up. The managing editor, who reportedly had a drink or two at lunch in anticipation of the award, started crying and said, "We'll win one of these DAMN things yet." Didn't happen until long after her departure.

 

Kudos to all.
It helps to be well resourced and it helps to have a natural disaster or other event of human peril in your neighborhood. But this is all important work, and it helps explain the value of what journalism can achieve.

 

Not to take away from the greater point, which is spot-on, but in addition to staff cuts, how many newsrooms are back in business post-covid?

 

The poet who won is worth a read.