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Washington Post wins 4 Pulitzers; NY Times wins 3
April 13, 2010, Tuesday
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THE Washington Post yesterday won four Pulitzer Prizes, and The New York Times won three of the awards, the most prestigious in US journalism.
The Post won for international reporting, feature writing, commentary and criticism. The Times won three, for national reporting and explanatory reporting, and also for investigative reporting for a collaborative effort with the fledgling news service ProPublica.
The Pulitzers are given out annually by Columbia University on the recommendation of a board of distinguished journalists and others. Each award carries a US$10,000 prize except for the public service award, which is a gold medal.
ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine together won one of two Pulitzers awarded for investigative reporting for a story on the life-and-death decisions made by doctors at a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina.
The ProPublica prize - and an editorial cartooning award for the self-syndicated Mark Fiore, whose work appears on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site SFGate.com - represented a victory for new media in a competition long dominated by ink-on-newsprint.
ProPublica, a 2-year-old organization, is bankrolled by charitable foundations, staffed by distinguished veteran journalists, and devoted to doing the kind of big investigative journalism projects many newspapers have found too expensive.
The Pulitzers opened its doors wider in recent years to online-only material. The changes reflect the seismic shifts going on in the industry in the past decade, with readers getting their news online at all hours, in a never-ending news cycle.
Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler said there about 100 online entries from 50 sites this year, up from 65 entries last year.
"You could see they're really doing serious journalism," he said. "I think over time they're going to get stronger."
The other prize for investigative reporting went to the Philadelphia Daily News for exposing a rogue police narcotics squad.
The Seattle Times staff was honored in the breaking news category for its coverage of the shooting deaths of four police officers in a coffee shop. The Pulitzer for local reporting went to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a series of stories on fraud and abuse in a child-care program for poor working parents.
The Herald Courier of Bristol, Virginia, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service yesterday for reporting on the mismanagement of natural gas royalties owed to thousands of landowners in Virginia. Daniel Gilbert's reporting on natural gas royalties led lawmakers to take corrective action. The 33,000-circulation paper has only seven reporters
Gilbert called the award "a hell of an honor" and said it underscores the importance of public service reporting in rural areas.
The Dallas Morning News won for editorial writing.
Mark Fiore, whose animated cartoons appear on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site, SFGate.com, was honored for editorial cartooning.
The Des Moines Register won for breaking-news photography for capturing a rescuer trying to save a woman trapped beneath a dam, and the Denver Post was honored for feature photography for a portrait of a teenager who joined the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq.
The Washington Post's award for international reporting went to Anthony Shadid for what the Pulitzer board called "his rich, beautifully written series" on Iraq as the US military gets ready to withdraw. The newspaper's Gene Weingarten won in feature writing for what the board called a "haunting" story on parents who accidentally kill their children by leaving them in cars.
The Post also won in commentary for Kathleen Parker's witty columns on political and moral issues, and in criticism, for Sarah Kaufman's writing on dance.
The New York Times won for national reporting for a series of stories in print and online on distracted driving, and for explanatory reporting for exposing defects in federal food-safety regulations.
Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the St. Petersburg, Florida-based Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank, said collaborations of the new and the old - such as the one between ProPublica and The New York Times - could become more common.
"Collaboration is something we are going to see much more of," he said. "The mythical body of journalists has been so decimated we are going to see all kinds of creative ways to get more juice. What's interesting about it is it's a way of building a bridge between the old school and new school."
The Post won for international reporting, feature writing, commentary and criticism. The Times won three, for national reporting and explanatory reporting, and also for investigative reporting for a collaborative effort with the fledgling news service ProPublica.
The Pulitzers are given out annually by Columbia University on the recommendation of a board of distinguished journalists and others. Each award carries a US$10,000 prize except for the public service award, which is a gold medal.
ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine together won one of two Pulitzers awarded for investigative reporting for a story on the life-and-death decisions made by doctors at a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina.
The ProPublica prize - and an editorial cartooning award for the self-syndicated Mark Fiore, whose work appears on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site SFGate.com - represented a victory for new media in a competition long dominated by ink-on-newsprint.
ProPublica, a 2-year-old organization, is bankrolled by charitable foundations, staffed by distinguished veteran journalists, and devoted to doing the kind of big investigative journalism projects many newspapers have found too expensive.
The Pulitzers opened its doors wider in recent years to online-only material. The changes reflect the seismic shifts going on in the industry in the past decade, with readers getting their news online at all hours, in a never-ending news cycle.
Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler said there about 100 online entries from 50 sites this year, up from 65 entries last year.
"You could see they're really doing serious journalism," he said. "I think over time they're going to get stronger."
The other prize for investigative reporting went to the Philadelphia Daily News for exposing a rogue police narcotics squad.
The Seattle Times staff was honored in the breaking news category for its coverage of the shooting deaths of four police officers in a coffee shop. The Pulitzer for local reporting went to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a series of stories on fraud and abuse in a child-care program for poor working parents.
The Herald Courier of Bristol, Virginia, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service yesterday for reporting on the mismanagement of natural gas royalties owed to thousands of landowners in Virginia. Daniel Gilbert's reporting on natural gas royalties led lawmakers to take corrective action. The 33,000-circulation paper has only seven reporters
Gilbert called the award "a hell of an honor" and said it underscores the importance of public service reporting in rural areas.
The Dallas Morning News won for editorial writing.
Mark Fiore, whose animated cartoons appear on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site, SFGate.com, was honored for editorial cartooning.
The Des Moines Register won for breaking-news photography for capturing a rescuer trying to save a woman trapped beneath a dam, and the Denver Post was honored for feature photography for a portrait of a teenager who joined the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq.
The Washington Post's award for international reporting went to Anthony Shadid for what the Pulitzer board called "his rich, beautifully written series" on Iraq as the US military gets ready to withdraw. The newspaper's Gene Weingarten won in feature writing for what the board called a "haunting" story on parents who accidentally kill their children by leaving them in cars.
The Post also won in commentary for Kathleen Parker's witty columns on political and moral issues, and in criticism, for Sarah Kaufman's writing on dance.
The New York Times won for national reporting for a series of stories in print and online on distracted driving, and for explanatory reporting for exposing defects in federal food-safety regulations.
Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the St. Petersburg, Florida-based Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank, said collaborations of the new and the old - such as the one between ProPublica and The New York Times - could become more common.
"Collaboration is something we are going to see much more of," he said. "The mythical body of journalists has been so decimated we are going to see all kinds of creative ways to get more juice. What's interesting about it is it's a way of building a bridge between the old school and new school."
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