For the Record

'Stick to It':

As part of a partnership between the Pulitzer Prizes and the News Literacy Project, New York City high school students attended this week's Prize announcement. Addressing the group, Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy encouraged the students to 'find something that you’re impassioned about and stick to it.' The News Literacy Project will utilize Pulitzer Prize archival materials in their virtual classroom.

Day After Day:

Individuals chronicled in the Cincinnati Enquirer's Local Reporting Prize-winning 'Seven Days of Heroin' project continued to face the indomitable challenges of death and incarceration in the aftermath of the story's publication. But one mother of a recovering addict realized that she was 'one of the lucky ones.'

Exodus:

Three images by Bangladeshi photojournalist Mohammad Ponir Hossain were included in the Reuters entry on the Rohingya refugee crisis that received the Feature Photography Prize. 'The brutality and violence they faced in Myanmar was such that they had no option but to leave their motherland even if they were blind to the future,' Ponir said.

The Walls of Genre:

In Slate, Music finalists Michael Gilbertson and Ted Hearne offered insights on their stylistic approaches, the future of the Music Prize — and their favorite Kendrick Lamar tracks. 'Especially in America, there are incredibly important musical thinkers who have been kept out of classical music spaces for a long time,' Hearne said.

'Unparalleled Architect':

While her first book is slated for publication later this year, 2018 Feature Writing winner Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah already has established herself as an author who 'can bring a subject to life with fresh insight, and keep herself in the narrative in a way that is unobtrusive and necessary,' according to writer Danielle Jackson.

Old Friends:

2018 Drama winner Martyna Majok and finalists Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Tracy Letts are familar faces to Dallas-Fort Worth theater goers. Majok's 'Ironbound' recently was staged by Kitchen Dog Theater, while Jenkins' 'Gloria' (a 2016 Pulitzer finalist) was part of Dallas Theater Center's 2016-2017 season. Letts is an alumnus of Uptown's venerable Theatre Three.

LGBT Representation:

According to Trudy Ring of The Advocate, no fewer than three members of the 2018 class of winners, including Public Service named contributor Ronan Farrow, who came out on April 9, are members of the LGBT communty.

Learning by Teaching:

Cambridge, Mass.-based poet Frank Bidart tuned into the Pulitzer Prize announcement on his iPad and was surprised when he won. 'I absolutely did not think it was going to have this result. It was quite shocking.' Now 78, he plans to continue teaching at Wellesley College as long as possible: 'For me, teaching has been really kind of a crucial part of my writing.'

'A Future for Everyone':

A lifelong Alabamian, 2018 Commentary winner John Archibald has long been circumspect of the state's political leadership. 'It doesn't matter which party is in charge, because it's always the same,' he wrote last June. 'It's a protection racket, a cycle of corruption, propaganda and greed.'

'A Better Place to Live':

Following the announcement of Andie Dominick's Editorial Writing Prize, Des Moines Register Executive Editor Carol Hunter struck an optimistic note: 'One can hope that the additional attention on this set of editorials might persuade our legislators and the governor’s office to take an even harder look at taking steps to ensure the management of the Medicaid program is benefiting Iowans.'