List of PuTzitzer Prize Winners 2002

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[ATOMIC_PUNK]

List of Pulitzer Prize Winners

April 8 —

The 2002 Pulitzer Prize winners, announced Monday:

JOURNALISM:

Public service: The New York Times.

Breaking news reporting: The Wall Street Journal.

Investigative reporting: Three writers for The Washington Post.

Explanatory reporting: Staff, The New York Times.

Beat reporting: Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times.

National reporting: Staff, The Washington Post.

International reporting: Barry Bearak of The New York Times.

Feature writing: Barry Siegel of the Los Angeles Times.

Commentary: Thomas Friedman of The New York Times.

Criticism: Justin Davidson of Newsday.

Editorial writing: Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen of the Los Angeles Times.

Editorial cartooning: Clay Bennett of The Christian Science Monitor.

Breaking news photography: The New York Times.

Feature photography: The New York Times.

ARTS:

Fiction: Richard Russo for "Empire Falls."

Drama: Suzan-Lori Parks for "Topdog/Underdog."

History: Louis Menand for "The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America."

Biography: David McCullough for "John Adams."

Poetry: Carl Dennis for "Practical Gods."

General Nonfiction: Diane McWhorter for "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution."

Music: Henry Brant, "Ice Field."

[sauropod]

How they could leave out Jerry Seper or Bill Gertz of The Washington Times absolutely amazes me.

[Black Cat]

I don't understand why you have the sarcastic headline -- seemed to me that the NY Times did have the best coverage of the attacks in a year when the awards were dominated by that event...

[alisasny]

The usual suspects win again. AKA ..the propoganda fools...

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Come out of the dark and think for yourself come.... come.... OK SNAP OUT OF IT !!!!!

[Cicero]

At first I thought this might be a bad joke, so I checked the source link. It's real. Talk about a mutual admiration society!

[rmlew]

I liked John Adams. It wasn't as good at McCullough's previous biography, Truman, but was far better than a lot of crap out there.

[PhiKapMom]

Why am I not surprised? This is a total farce!

[Black Cat]

Did you read the Times' coverage?

I can't say that much about the other awards, but speaking for that one case, I thought it was well-deserved.

[Timesink]

How they could leave out Jerry Seper or Bill Gertz of The Washington Times absolutely amazes me.

Has a non-liberal paper ever won a Pulitzer for any meaningful category?

[Loyalist]

Remember when papers outside New York and Washington won Pulitzer prizes as well? The Pulitzers have become nothing but the Eastern Establishment press version of the Oscars: an exercise in shameless self-congratulation.

[sauropod]

That, my friend, was my point.

[Lazamataz]

Remember when papers outside New York and Washington won Pulitzer prizes as well? The Pulitzers have become nothing but the Eastern Establishment press version of the Oscars: an exercise in shameless self-congratulation.

We should form our own set of awards.

[CedarDave]

Breaking news photography: The New York Times.
Feature photography: The New York Times.

I guess this image, shot by a New Jersey reporter, was not worthy of a prize:

(< / cynicism>, < /sarcasm>)

[CedarDave]

Photo of firemen raising flag at ground zero becomes enduring image of Sept. 11

Enough said.

[PhiKapMom]

I remember that well -- this awarding of these awards only to the East Coast Establishment newspapers IMO makes these awards meaningless. For all the awards to stay on the East Coast is ludicrous!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Some of you dont seem to get it taking that picture is part of their jobs Writing articles is their job HEY they took some great heart wrenching pics and write some great articles but its become a joke as to how they can twist reakity into conformity and get away with it and the thing that amazes me is PEOPLE EAT IT UP hell with just the pic you posted they wanted to change it and rewrite history if it had not have been for freerepublic and the american people that pic would have been a blot in history after generations to be forgotten but a pulitzer is supposed to be a prize for major acheivement not just for doing your job [JMHO]

[archy]

Has a non-liberal paper ever won a Pulitzer for any meaningful category?

Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kansas Gazette was a both a masterful writer and a confidant and political ally of Theodore Roosevelt.

In 1922 he won the Pulizer prize for a Gazette editorial, "To An Anxious Friend," defending freedom of speech. That was, of course, during the height of the power of the Ku Klux Klan in America at a time when that organization held a stance not only against negros and Jews, but also Catholics and *foreign immigrants* and at a time when the Klan openly marched in Washington and had been instrumental in the elections of presidents Coolidge and Hoover.

White was one of the good guys, and a truly great man, as well as a business sharpie. He was a particular hero to one former editor who employed me a decade back, and deservedly so. That has been a few years back though....

-archy-/-

[archy]

I guess this image, shot by a New Jersey reporter, was not worthy of a prize:

The Pulitzer Award [often called the *Wurlitzer Prize* in our newsroom] is of course awarded in several categories and the winners are chosen by a committee of really important folks- read the description of how Joseph Kennedy bought a Pulitzer for son Jack's Profiles in Courage to get an idea of the depths to which the process has sunk since Joe Pulitzer's day.

But one of the newspapers where I once worked was the first one owned by Pulitzer, so it was a big deal for me when my own coverage of Desert Shield/Storm/Sabre was nominated for the 1992 John X Beidler Award- of which there's only one given a year, and for which both the nominations and award voting come only from those who've previously been awarded a Beidler. And the Pulitzer pays around 5 grand as a financial award, the Beidler is about twice that...

I never found out who nominated me to the Beidler committee, nor who, probably from one of the papers in which my *Along the Way* column ran, submitted my material.

But I named the WTC flagraising pic as my choice for this year's Beidler [for stories from 2001]. And I doubt I'm the only one who did so. I bet it gets it. That's a bigger deal than the Wurlitzer Prize, which can be bought and sold like the services of a 10-dollar crackwhore.

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[Freee-dame]

Pro-American papers need not apply.

[CedarDave]

Did you win??

In any event, congrats on being a FR member from the journalism profession. I bet not too many are registered here, though I'm sure a few (or more) lurk here.

[MaggieMay]

Anyone who does not see through this snub, also believes Clinton is a sincere & honest person, Halle Berry has exhaustive sensibilities, and Gore was cheated out of being president. In other words this is the work of revisionist who believe that the heros of 911 were not representative of our muticultural society.

[RooRoobird14]

My (baby) brother sat on the Pulitzer committee for a few years. (His reporters won two Pulitzer prizes sometime in the 90's--can't remember exactly which years). The Pulitzer committee is largely made up of previous Pulitzer prize winners and "academics" (read: left wing clymer professors).

I think at one time the award meant something--like in the the Edward R. Murrow days. The Pulitzer Committee is currently dominated by pinkoe leftist activists at the NYT, Washington Post, etc.

[Unknown Freeper]

What? No Doris Kearns Goodwin? I'm shocked...shocked, I tell you.

[tracer]

To award a Pulitzer for the firemen-flag photo would be a slap in the face of the spirit of "Diversity".....

/sarcasm>

[lentulusgracchus]

I agree with you, this looks like a leftist mutual-admiration society. The Hackensack Reporter shot had to have been discussed......and rejected. I wouldn't bet against anyone on this thread, as to grounds for the rejection.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I think the heros were used as pawns for a more sinister plan such as revisionist blatherers theres no doubt in my mind they were heros 1 and all but the storytellers try and rewrite the history of what actually happened thike the flag raising fiasco of the wtc.