The Gawker Guide to This Year's Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today! They are still journalism’s most prestigious prize, even though you can win the same amount of money ($10,000) on an episode of Chopped.
Pulitzer Committee Confirms: Editorial Writing Is Worthless
Your 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced! [Pause.] That very faint sound you hear is the cheering of a dozen or so newsrooms across America, interspersed with the vast silence of a nation that could not care less about the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners.
Pulitzer Prize or Not, The National Enquirer Will Soldier On
The National Enquirer didn't win a Pulitzer today for its reporting on John Edwards' baby mama drama. How's the tabloid coping with defeat? Just after the results were announced, we called Barry Levine, the Enquirer's executive editor, to find out.
Two People Who Really Didn't Need Pulitzer Prizes, For Very Different Reasons
The Pulitzer Prizes came out today. One went to a columnist who wrote two years ago that Barack Obama was ethnically unequipped to understand America, and another went to the greatest songwriter of all time. Both of them were mistakes.
Why Pulitzer Prizes Don't Matter
One of the two Pulitzer Prize winners for local reporting was laid off last year.
Pulitzer Prize Now a Menace to Web Publications, Too
A little late, no? The Pulitzer Prize, conventional journalism's most sought-after award, is opening its doors to Web publications, eleven years after Internet reporters first tried to submit their work.
America's Pernicious Pulitzers
America's newsrooms are in a state of excitement: the Pulitzer prizes for excellence in journalism have been awarded. Washington Post, winner in six categories, is said to be particularly febrile. "It's a pretty amazing atmosphere over here right now," one reporter told Media Mob. "The big editors are roaming around…
Media Bubble: Well, That First Quarter Sucked
Media Bubble: How's Your News, MySpace?
Bill Keller: Why Is This Pulitzer Different From All Other Prizes?
Yesterday, as the news of the Pulitzer Prizes drifted out into the media, the mood at the New York Times was relatively somber. True, the paper had won a prize, for Andrea Elliott's series on an imam in Brooklyn, but had not turned up as the winner in any other category—which, for a paper that's grown accustomed to…
Handicapping The Pulitzers: It's Not Pretty
Early last month, based on a list assembled (not completely correctly, as it turned out) by Editor & Publisher, Gawkers Balk and Choire sat down to handicap the Pulitzer race. [UPDATE: YES EDITOR & PUBLISHERS WAS ALMOST COMPLETELY CORRECT, FINE, STOP EMAILING US. (Apparently the prize board moved some things or…
The Pulitzers Are Announced
Well, look at that. The Pulitzers have been announced, and they certainly have spread the wealth: the Wall Street Journal wins two, but no other paper gets more than one, including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which each win one. The Washington Post gets completely goose-egged, though the paper had…
Did The 'NYT' Only Win One Pulitzer This Year?
So! Today at 3 p.m. the Pulitzer Prizes are being announced in an always-anticlimactic ceremony at Columbia. But we're hearing that the New York Times has won only one award this year, for Andrea Elliott's series "An Imam In America." Undoubtedly there are some grim faces on West 43rd Street this afternoon. No awards…
Handicapping The Pulitzers
Yesterday, in what is becoming an annual tradition, Editor & Publisher revealed a leaked list of Pulitzer finalists. Two Gawker editors, who hereby affirm at the outset that they have read almost none of the nominated stories in question, sat down today to handicap the awards. Their predictions are lengthy,…
Media Bubble: Year Three, After Jayson
• Three years ago today, the Times published its Jayson Blair, and things went from bad to worse for Howell Raines (and from good to better for Seth Mnookin). [E&P]
• A short (and very Maer-friendly) history of Radar magazine. [NYRM]
• Incoming Pulitzer chairman Paul Steiger wants more focus on online web-based…
Media Bubble: The Calm Before the Ellie-Madness Storm
• Does it count as a New York magazine stunt if no one notices, or cares? [Romenesko]
• ASME elects new prez and veep; new prez and veep promptly make Bush and Cheney jokes. [WWD]
• Lachlan Murdoch has a second son; Choire Sicha promptly begins lusting for him. [Advertiser]
• WSJ editor Paul Steiger named chairman of…
Media Bubble: Pulitzer Winners Are Just Like Us — They Have Lunch!
• Pulitzer winners lunch together — before the awards are announced! Scandal! [E&P]
• Morgan Stanley wants to end NYT Co.'s two-tiered stock structure, which keeps the Sulzbergers in control. Much as we like to make fun of the Sulzies: Dear God, are these people insane? [TheStreet.com]
• A day after the Times…
Gawker on Location: Pulitzer Prize Announcement Has All the Excitement of, Well, Newspapers
Sig Gissler, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, announces the winners. Actually, and disappointingly, he merely announces the winners are being announced. The World window, behind him, is the highlight of the experience.
Pulitzers Announced
Your as-it-happens sloppy report: 3 wins for the Times, which is trumped by 4 for the Washington Post. Among the WaPo's chosen ones is resident fashionista Robin Givhan. Did you hear that, Styles? There's hope for you yet. Kind of.
The Pulitzerian Humbling of the 'Times'?
The funny thing about the Pulitzer Prize announcements is that while there's a big deal made about how they're kept secret until the moment they're announced — not via TV or wire but the old-fashioned way, up at Columbia at 3 p.m. — they're usually a pretty poorly kept secret. (This is not terribly surprising: Scores…
