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Pulitzers Awarded to Katrina Coverage, WaPo, and NY Times
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Jen Chung
Published Apr 17, 2006
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Published Apr 17, 2006
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The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today and the old Gray Lady takes three, but the Washington Post won four (criticism, beat reporting, explanatory writing, and investigative reporting). However, the real story might be the awards for Hurricane Katrina coverage, a public service award shared by the Sun-Herald in Biloxi and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, breaking news photography award for the Dallas Morning News and a breaking news reporting awards fro the Times-Picayune.
The three Pulitzers the NY times won are for international reporting on "ragged justice in China", commentary by Nicholas D. Kristof, and national reporting on domestic eavesdropping (this prize was shared with the San Diego Tribune's coverage of Randy Cunningham's bribe-taking). And youch, no Pulitzer was awarded for Drama - though there were three nominees.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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