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Gregory Moore and Thomas Friedman elected co-chairs of Pulitzer Prize Board
Gregory Moore, editor of The Denver Post, and Thomas L. Friedman, bestselling author and foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, have been elected co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Moore has been editor of The Post since coming to Denver in June 2002. He joined the newspaper after 16 years at The Boston Globe, the last eight as managing editor. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The Times. He served as the bureau chief in Beirut and Jerusalem and later as chief diplomatic correspondent and chief White House correspondent. He became the paper’s foreign affairs columnist in 1995.
The new co-chairs have served on the Board since 2004 and will share their responsibilities this year.
Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica, named to Pulitzer Prize Board
Stephen Engelberg, a veteran editor noted for his achievements in investigative journalism, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Engelberg has been managing editor of ProPublica, the online, non-profit investigative newsroom, since its inception in 2008. He oversees the organization’s day-to-day editorial operations, long-term projects and Web strategy.
2012 Pulitzer winners celebrate!
On April 16, 2012 Pulitzer Prizewinners in journalism and the arts from across the country uncorked the champagne and pumped their fists in celebration.
At right, the Philadelphia Inquirer staff celebrates its Pulitzer for Public Service. Awarded for its "Assault on Learning" series about pervasive violence in Philadelphia's public schools, this is the newspaper's first Pulitzer win since 1997. Clockwise from front: reporters Susan Snyder, John Sullivan, Jeff Gammage and Dylan Purcell.
Left, Seattle Times reporters Ken Armstrong, left, and Michael J. Berens hear the good news. Berens and Armstrong won an Investigative Reporting prize for their series "Methadone and the Politics of Pain," which exposed Washington state's practice of routinely prescribing methadone for people in state-subsidized health care.
2012 Journalism Jurors leap to online judging system
After 95 years, the bulky scrapbook entries are gone. When 2012 Journalism Jurors gathered at Columbia University in February, they used -- for the first time -- a new online system to judge 1,113 entries and nominate three finalists in 14 categories.
All entries this year were reviewed only on laptop computers and tablets.
Poet Tracy K. Smith wins prize on her birthday
April 16, 2012 was a big day for Tracy K. Smith — she turned 40 and won a Pulitzer Prize. Smith said her book “Life on Mars,” was inspired in part by her father, who was an engineer on the Hubble space telescope and died in 2008.
Read this story, and more about Pulitzer celebrations, on our In the News page.
Steven Hahn, American historian, and Robert Blau, an editor at Bloomberg News, join Pulitzer Board
Steven Hahn, a widely esteemed Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in 19th century America, and Robert Blau, a managing editor at Bloomberg News noted for his commitment to investigative and narrative journalism, have been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Hahn, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, has written extensively about the American South, African-American history and the international history of slavery, emancipation and race. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for history for A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration.
Blau is managing editor for projects and investigations at Bloomberg News, a global newsgathering organization. He served as managing editor of The Baltimore Sun from 2004 to 2008. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Chicago Tribune, supervising some of the paper’s most prominent work, which included a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for Explanatory Reporting.
Margaret Sullivan, editor of Buffalo News, joins Pulitzer Board
Margaret M. Sullivan, the editor of The Buffalo News and a proponent of investigative reporting and journalistic service to the community, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Rising through the ranks, Sullivan was named editor of The News in 1999, the first woman to hold that position in the newspaper’s 131-year history. Previously, she was the paper's first female managing editor.
Pulitzer-winning journalists share their tips
Four reporters explained how their investigative work won 2011 Pulitzer Prizes during a seminar at Columbia’s Journalism School on Oct. 4. As is often the case, their stories were “hiding in plain sight,” waiting to be discovered and pursued. The panelists were Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives of the Los Angeles Times, who exposed astonishing corruption in a small California city; Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, who reconstructed the death of six fishermen; and Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, who revealed how unsuspecting Floridians face hurricanes with flimsy insurance protection from shaky companies. Moderator was Walt Bodanich, New York Times, three-time Pulitzer winner.