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The halo effect
Pulitzer Prize day was Monday, but as we wait (sigh) for the
redacted Mueller report, we can still catch up on what was a superb 2018 for
journalism.
Also today, the Peabody Awards named their best documentaries of
the year and why Monday was not all good for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
despite winning a Pulitzer.
But let’s start with those who didn’t win the Pulitzer.
Many newsrooms
around the country celebrated with champagne, smiles and tears Monday when
they learned they had won a Pulitzer Prize, American journalism’s most
prestigious award.
That should not take away from the tremendous work done in many
of the hundreds of newsrooms where Pulitzers were not won. That includes those
who might have been disappointed to not take home the big prize, but should be
proud to have been named a finalist.
For example, there might not have been a more haunting piece of
audio in 2018 than listening
to children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, while
one border agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” That was a part of
ProPublica’s “Zero
Tolerance” coverage, a finalist in the Public Service category.
Also a finalist in Public Service was the Washington
Post’s reporting on the murder of Saudi-born Post contributor Jamal
Khashoggi.
There’s so much more.
Such as the Tampa Bay Times’ “Heartbroken,”
which looked at the alarming rate of pediatric deaths from heart procedures
that forced major changes at a children’s hospital. Such as “Denied
Justice,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s disturbing series that exposed
breakdowns in the investigation and prosecution of rape cases. Such as Caitlin
Flanagan’s columns in The Atlantic, which deftly explored the intersection
of gender and politics.
So consider this a public service announcement. Go to the Pulitzer
website and read what amounts to just a fraction of the best journalism in
2018. Read the finalists. And read the winners, from Tony
Messenger’s columns in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to Brent
Staples editorials about race in the New York Times to the Associated
Press’ amazing work about the atrocities of the war in Yemen.
It will be well worth your time.
The Pulitzer's smaller
victories
The Capital Gazette newspaper. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Poynter’s Kristen Hare writes:
Local
newsrooms were stars in the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes. Whether their staffs
dealt with fewer resources, tragedy or ownership issues, each produced
extraordinary work for their communities.
“Journalism is a hard job,” Capital Gazette editor Rick Hutzell told Poynter after that newsroom won a Pulitzer citation. “It doesn’t require a huge amount of reimagining ...You can show up at your county council and read the budget and look at the police records. You can look around your community and celebrate the victories, point out what could be better, point out what’s wrong.”
“Journalism is a hard job,” Capital Gazette editor Rick Hutzell told Poynter after that newsroom won a Pulitzer citation. “It doesn’t require a huge amount of reimagining ...You can show up at your county council and read the budget and look at the police records. You can look around your community and celebrate the victories, point out what could be better, point out what’s wrong.”
Your next binge list ...
The Peabody Awards, which will recognize winners in broadcasting
and digital media at its gala May 18 in New York, revealed
their top documentaries on Tuesday. They were:
- HBO’s “Dangerous Sons,” about raising children with mental health issues.
- PBS’s “Independent Lens: Dolores,” about activist and community organizer Dolores Huerta.
- PBS’s “Independent Lens: The Judge,” about the Middle East’s first female Sharia law judge.
- American Masters’ “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart,” about the life of the essayist, journalist, playwright and social justice advocate.
- Hulu’s “Minding the Gap,” about the coming of age of skateboarding friends through life’s challenges.
- POV’s “The Apology,” about sex slaves during World War II.
- Frontline’s “The Facebook Dilemma,” about the social media giant, its faults and its global and social impact.
- PBS’s “The Jazz Ambassadors,” about the contribution of jazz to Cold War diplomacy, race relations and third-world nations.
The Peabody board also named Kartemquin Films winner of an
Institutional Award for its work. Kartemquin, founded in Chicago in 1966, made
this year’s Peabody winner, “Minding the Gap,” as well as “Hoop
Dreams,” the 1994 classic that followed two high school students from
Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball stars.
Pulitzers by the numbers
How many Pulitzer Prize finalists were from newspapers? What was
the split between men and women? Which news organization had the most
finalists? For the answers, my Poynter colleague Daniel Funke broke down the
Pulitzers by the numbers in a cool
interactive chart.
Daniel also rounded up this
year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoons by Darrin Bell, a
freelancer whose work is distributed by the Washington Post Writers Group.
(Note: Ardent supporters of President Donald Trump might want to skip Bell’s
cartoons.)
The Athletic drafts
Pittsburgh writer
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette celebrated a Pulitzer Prize on
Monday, winning the award in Breaking News for its coverage
of the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue.
But the Post-Gazette got some bad news Monday when longtime
Steelers’ beat writer, Ed Bouchette, announced he was leaving the paper to join
The Athletic. Two takeaway thoughts about this: Covering the Steelers is a huge
deal in football-crazy western Pennsylvania. The other is that Bouchette has
been covering the Steelers for the Post-Gazette since 1984. Combine those two
and that makes Bouchette something of a rock star in Pittsburgh.
In announcing his move in
a piece for The Athletic, Bouchette wrote, “I put my newspaper career in …
the rear view, but certainly not my journalistic career.”
Two other Post-Gazette sportswriters (Stephen J. Nesbitt and
Sean Gentille) also left for The Athletic.
This is just the latest example of The
Athletic, a subscription-based and advertising-free sports website started
three years ago, poaching one of the top beat writers from a local paper to
bolster its coverage.
Katrina podcast in the works
The Atlantic has begun
production on a limited-run podcast about Hurricane Katrina. The series
will launch in the fall. Atlantic staff writer Vann R. Newkirk II will host the
podcast with Katherine Wells as executive producer.
In a statement, Atlantic Executive Editor Adrienne LaFrance
said, “It makes great sense to pair Katherine with a reporter like Vann, who
runs toward the biggest and most complex stories, and has a natural instinct
for excavating forgotten histories as a way to understand what lies ahead.”
Check it out
- The worst part of Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson’s day used to be dropping off her kids at school. Why? The mother of four is a Columbine survivor. The Associated Press’s Kathleen Food, Allen G. Breed and P. Solomon Banda tell her story.
- The art of feedback — both giving and receiving it — is the lead topic this week in Poynter’s The Cohort newsletter, which is about women in digital media. Nisha Chittal, the engagement editor at Vox.com, is guest columnist.
