'Wash Post' Captures 6 Pulitzers, 'NYT' Takes 2

[flowomo]

Source: Editor and Publisher

NEW YORK The Washington Post was the big Pulitzer Prize winner on Monday, taking home six of the 14 journalism categories -- including the coveted Public Service award -- the most ever for the newspaper. Winners were announced at 3 p.m. at Columbia University.

The Post's six-prize sweep is second only in history to The New York Times, which won seven Pulitzers in 2002, many for its Sept. 11 coverage.

The Times won two Pulitzers this year, for investigative reporting and for Explanatory Reporting.

The board offered no winner in editorial writing, the first time that has occurred in that category since 1993.

The Post's winners this year are:

-- Public Service - Dana Priest and Anne Hull, for their Walter Reed Army Hospital expose.

--National Reporting - Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, for their series, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency."

--International Reporting - Steve Fanairu, for his coverage of Iraq-related security and Blackwater.

-- Breaking News - Coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.

-- Commentary - Business columnist Steve Pearlstein.

-- Feature Reporting - Gene Weingarten, for "Pearls Before Breakfast," his story on violinist Joshua Bell playing in the subway.

The New York Times’ two awards are for:

-- Investigative Reporting, for its "Toxic Pipeline" series on dangerous foreign imports by Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker.

-- Explanatory Reporting, to Amy Harmon for "The DNA Age."
--Feature Photography: Concord (NH) Monitor

--Breaking News Photography: Reuters

--Editorial Cartooning: Investors Business Daily, Michael Ramirez

--Local Reporting: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

-- Criticism: Boston Globe, Mark Feeney

--Investigative Reporting (co-winner) : Chicago Tribune staff, faulty government regulation of toys, cribs, car seats

Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003786622

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Many DUers like to trash the MSM -- but look at some of the great work done here, and how important great journalism is to all of us

[n2doc]

1. Great to see the Walter reed article get its due...

The Times should have its ones taken away for hiring Kristol...

[flowomo]

2. agree on the "Reed"...

DUers like to piss on the MSM -- but they ignore the terrific work being done every day.

[underpants]

3. The Angler was a very good piece

:thumbsup:

[Bozita]

4. Didn't Dana Priest win one earlier for her reports on the US usage of rented overseas prisons?

She's a good'un!

[flowomo]

5. yes, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2006/04/17/LI2006041700530.html

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Thank you, flowomo! The MSM has committed unforgiveable sins, but...

without its news gathering capabilities, and not a small amount of excellent work done by working journalists, we would be a far more ignorant people. Just look on DU's LBN page any day, and imagine it without contributions from the "MSM."

Congrats to these journalists, and Heaven help them keep their jobs in a field, like many, that's in a state of constant downsizing. (An example: Only a couple of years ago the L.A. Times almost swept the Pulitzers. Under new ownership now, a succession of editors fired for refusing to cut news staff to the barest bone, long-time reporters taking "buyouts" -- and that newspaper is not represented on the Pulitzer list this year.)

[Mike Daniels]

7. The Weingarten piece was a joke

A snob's take of how the working plebes trying to catch a train during morning rush hour weren't cultured enough to appreciate a "plant" playing his instrument.

Never mind that the plant was positioned in the high traffic area of the station where general noise would have drowned out most of the finer qualities of his playing to begin with. Hell, you can't even hear the announcements in most metro stations as the sounds bounces around everwhere.

The piece would have been more legitimate if the test was done during the lunch hour or in a park near a metro that had heavy foot traffic.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. I agree, however....

If not for this piece, Metro would not have hired musicians in the DC area to perform in their stations last summer. Something decent came out of it. :hi:

[AlphaCentauri]

9. I just finish reading "Pearls Before Breakfast"

Amazing stun, reflecting the mechanized US society.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

[JohnnyCougar]

10. Meh...it doesn't make up for all the wrong they do

or all the lies they tell. Both these papers -- when it comes to US foreign policy -- are largely a collection of neoconservative White House press releases published under different names.