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Mail ballots usually take longer to count. This could lead to delays in declaring a winner in battleground states in the presidential race, possibly making “election night” more like “election week.”
The
#Pulitzer
for explanatory reporting was awarded to David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of
@nytimes
for an investigation of President Trump’s finances that exposed the president’s persistent tax dodging
Experts are urging media outlets to continually explain the realities of mail-in voting and maintain transparency about the vote count in order to head off conspiracy theories about the validity of the vote.
The Pulitzer Prizes routinely honor lots of journalism from U.S. news centers like New York and Washington, D.C.
But in 2023, much of the best work, according to the Pulitzer Board, was set in the 24th most populous state — Alabama.
From
@Michael_Bugeja
: The backlash against CNN’s town hall with former President Donald Trump is a lesson for outlets that cotton to a particular political psychographic and then abandon it, failing to retain regular viewers while divining for new ones.
Newsrooms often don’t tell job applicants that they didn’t get the gig.
Some say it’s just the way things are. Others say it raises an intriguing question: In an industry built on communication, why is timely communication difficult to come by?
one of my favorite sounds ever is the sound of a crisp new newspaper being read over breakfast for an hour or so… The popping out of it, the folding, the scribbling on the crossword… I hope it never goes out of fashion in our digital world. It is too romantic. 🗞️♥️
President Joe Biden used the words “truth,” “facts” and “lies” nine times in his inaugural address to highlight the crisis of disinformation and misinformation as an attack on the fundamentals of America’s democracy and national character.
Announcements thread: The
#Pulitzer
for public service was awarded to the
@SunSentinel
for exposing the failures of school and law enforcement officials before and during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida:
The
#Pulitzer
for breaking news reporting was awarded to
@PittsburghPG
Gazette for its compassionate coverage of the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue
Reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System are not verified before they're entered into the database. That makes VAERS fertile ground for vaccine misinformation.
The
#Pulitzer
for national reporting was awarded to
@WSJ
for uncovering President Donald Trump’s secret payoffs, during his campaign, to women who claimed to have had affairs with him
Congrats to
@nytimes
and
@NewYorker
for winning the
#PulitzerPrize
for public service for their coverage of the sexual abuse of women in Hollywood and other industries around the world.
The
@capgaznews
will receive a special citation for its heroic ability to continue to publish after a shooter entered its newsroom and killed five newsroom staffers. The
#Pulitzer
Foundation will make a $100,000 donation to the Gazette to expand its journalism.
The list of media workers who have died from COVID-19 includes newspaper owners, cameramen, broadcast pioneers, writers, retirees, young parents. Many of them got sick while informing their communities about the pandemic.
Journalists who are told that interview requests “must” go through a public-relations officer should insist on actually seeing the written policy that makes approval mandatory.
“This is actually trying to control the collective memory of this country,” Nikole Hannah-Jones told CNN. “And trying to say we just want to purge uncomfortable truths from our collective memory. And that’s very dangerous.”
"The truth is that journalism is a brutal profession with constant layoffs, stagnant wages and long hours, yet somehow, in your mind, this is elitism."
The board also honored the career and work of singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist Aretha Franklin, who died Aug. 16, 2018. Artists such as Bob Dylan and Hank Williams have been honored with similar
#Pulitzers
awards in the past.
Two knowledgeable sources, talking on background, confirmed that
@USATODAY
will phase out its print edition after an impending merger between
@Gannett
and
@GateHouse_Media
Editors changed stories to “muddy the waters” on who was responsible for the Capitol attack and gave orders to not refer to the rioters as Trump supporters, the Toledo NewsGuild president said.
This column by Eugene Patterson, then editor of the Atlanta Constitution, was originally published in that paper on September 16, 1963 and was read aloud that night on the “CBS Evening News” with Walter Cronkite.
Here are some of Rob Hiaasen's favorite lessons:
• Find humanity in whatever you're writing.
• Don't gild the lily — let the reporting shine, not the writing.
• Above all: Are you doing the stories you love?
In a week when the Biden administration worked to free a truth teller arrested in Russia, it doubled down on its commitment to punish another truth teller arrested in Western Europe: Julian Assange.
Anna Wolfe of Mississippi Today won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for an investigative series that uncovered new evidence into the extent of former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s involvement in the state’s massive $77 million welfare scandal.
More than 500 journalists have died of the coronavirus in more than 57 countries. The list includes cameramen and writers, retirees and young parents. Many of them got sick while informing their communities about the pandemic.
26% of journalists surveyed have clinically significant anxiety compatible with the diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder which includes symptoms of worry, feeling on edge, insomnia, poor concentration and fatigue.
>> Journalists are working night and day to keep us informed with the rapid and changing environment caused by COVID-19. They are
#PRESSential
workers. Make sure to
#ThankAJourno
for their commitment.
The
#Pulitzer
for Audio Reporting is awarded to the staff of
@Gimletmedia
and
@connie_walker
for Stolen, an investigation of the St. Michael’s Indian Residential School and generations of abuse of Indigenous children by the priests and nuns running the school.
"On Thursday, July 12, The Times will replace its slogan, Honestly Local, on the front-page masthead with Cook’s tweet. We invite all newspapers to do the same that day."
It’s vital for journalists to seek out and interview people from all walks of life.
But reporters also need to recognize their ethical duty to protect sources who lack the knowledge they need to protect themselves.
The Crimson White aimed to create a COVID-19 dashboard that would reflect a more accurate count of cases and vaccination rates than the University of Alabama was reporting. Most of their public records requests were stonewalled.
The Pulitzer for Audio Reporting is awarded to Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith and Robert Little of NPR for “No Compromise,” an investigative series on gun rights activists.
As it marks its fifth anniversary,
@BlockClubCHI
has built a news staff larger than predecessor DNAinfo’s and accumulated almost 20,000 subscribers while becoming a major player on the local journalism scene.
The
#Pulitzer
for local reporting was awarded to
@theadvocatebr
staff for coverage of the state’s discriminatory conviction system that allowed courts to jail defendants without a jury’s consensus about guilt:
He left his day job, headed for the border, got out his long lens and took some of the first photographs of detained kids who had been separated from their parents through President Trump’s order against legal asylum-seekers and migrants.
Two parents who lost children in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shootings wrote an open letter asking the Pulitzer Prize committee to recognize the Sun-Sentinel for its coverage of the shootings and its aftermath.
She did everything she was supposed to do, "But I’m a photographer, and even though the reporters are working from home, photographers can’t work from home.”