http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pulitzer/ en-us Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:51:40 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998478/posts Thanks to Bob Dylan, rock 'n' roll has finally broken through the Pulitzer wall. Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, who more than anyone brought rock from the streets to the lecture hall, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, cited for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." It was the first time Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive. "I am in disbelief," Dylan fan and fellow... Yahoo - AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998478/posts#comment Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:51:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998745/posts Investor's Business Daily cartoonist and Senior Editor Michael Ramirez won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday, his second win of the nation's most prestigious journalism award and the newspaper's first in its 24-year history. Ramirez won the 2008 award for a "distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing and pictorial effect." In awarding Ramirez, the Pulitzer panel lauded his "provocative cartoons that rely on originality, humor and detailed artistry." We couldn't agree more. "Michael is in a league of his own and at the top of his game," said Wesley... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998745/posts#comment Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:01:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998051/posts BREAKING NEWS: Washington Post wins 2008 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of the mistreatment of veterans at Walter Reed hospital. Full story to follow shortly. The Wall Street Journal (excerpt, subscription) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998051/posts#comment Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:15:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996308/posts Excerpt =- Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak was one of two foreign reporters arrested in Zimbabwe, where he was covering the elections, the newspaper said Thursday. "We do not know where he is being held, or what, if any, charges have been made against him," the paper's executive editor, Bill Keller, said in a statement. "We are making every effort to ascertain his status, to assure that he is safe and being well treated, and to secure his prompt release." It described Bearak as "an experienced and respected professional who has reported from many places. He won... Agence France-Presse (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996308/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:45:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923761/posts <p>NEW YORK - Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead," died Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.</p> AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923761/posts#comment Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:23:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830532/posts Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining by Keach Hagey May 1st, 2007 Barely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits. The news didn't make everyone all googly-eyed. In fact, some people at the paper's annual stockholders meeting in the New Amsterdam Theatre exchanged confused... The Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830532/posts#comment Wed, 9 May 2007 04:08:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825357/posts In 1932, one of the most prestigious honors in journalism, the Pulitzer Prize, was awarded to Walter Duranty, a New York Times reporter who was then serving as foreign correspondent in the Soviet Union. Though many other Pulitzers have been handed out over the years, Duranty's is remembered more than most. In the on-line archive of the prizes (www.pulitzer.org), his award is noted in a bland, one-sentence explanation that reads simply: "For his series of dispatches on Russia, especially the working out of the Five Year Plan." The reference is to Duranty's reporting on Stalin's economic plan. Duranty's dispatches helped... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825357/posts#comment Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:10:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822467/posts SAN FRANCISCO — David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who chronicled the Vietnam War generation, civil rights and the world of sports, was killed in a car crash Monday, his wife and local authorities said. He was 73. Halberstam, of New York, was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle in Menlo Park, south of San Francisco, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said. The cause of death appeared to be internal injuries, he said. The accident occurred around 10:30 a.m., and Halberstam was declared dead at the scene, Menlo Park Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said.... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822467/posts#comment Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:03:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797625/posts It didn't take long for the Pulitzer Prize finalist lists to begin leaking out. Within hours of the 14 Pulitzer juries packing up to go home on Wednesday after three days of judging at Columbia University, the names of this year's alleged finalists began to spread. So far, E&P has compiled a likely list of nine of the 14 journalism finalist groups. These are compiled from multiple sources -- based on chats with some judges and editors at some newspapers that received firm word -- with at least two confirming their accuracy. E&P has been publishing these leaked lists for... E&P. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797625/posts#comment Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:58:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750255/posts Jahangir Razmi Wins Recognition For Pulitzer Photo By EMILY STEELDecember 8, 2006; Page B3 More than a quarter of a century after an anonymous photograph of an Iranian firing squad won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, the Pulitzer Prize Board has said it will award the certificate and $10,000 cash prize to Iranian photographer Jahangir Razmi.The board said it will revise its records to grant Mr. Razmi his prize and invite him to the awards ceremony in New York May 21 at Columbia University, whose journalism school hosts the prizes. (Read the board's statement.)The identity of Mr. Razmi was... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750255/posts#comment Fri, 8 Dec 2006 05:29:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748053/posts Considering a lot of the reporting we've seen in the last few years from the MSM I think it's time that we inaugurate an annual Walter Duranty Award for Accuracy & Integrity in Journalism to an individual and MSM outlet that best exemplifies the high standards set by Walter Duranty and his reporting on Stalin's Soviet Union and the paper that carried his articles and proudly still displays his Pulitzer Prize. Any nominations? Reference the story they wrote/produced. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748053/posts#comment Mon, 4 Dec 2006 07:26:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1695399/posts Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist David Horsey compares Bush supporters to hicks. I have a word of advice for David Horsey: Mr. Horsey, you are a cartoonist. You get paid to draw cartoons that may be funny to some people, and sometimes may even be insightful, but will always be just cartoons. Your cartoons will never free the oppressed. Your cartoons will never cure cancer. Your cartoons will never save a human life. While America's finest men and women put their lives on the line every day for your freedom, you sit in your nice safe office and chuckle at your... The Seattle Post Intelligencer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1695399/posts#comment Mon, 4 Sep 2006 20:53:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690557/posts CHICAGO -- A Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune was charged in a Sudanese court Saturday with espionage and other crimes. Paul Salopek, 44, was charged in a 40-minute hearing with espionage, passing information illegally and writing "false news," the Tribune reported on its Web site. His driver and interpreter, both Chadian nationals, faced the same charges. ---snip--- "He had no agenda other than to fairly and accurately report on the region," Johns said. ---snip--- COX.Net AP Story http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690557/posts#comment Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:19:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616680/posts Here Are Pulitzer Prize Winners, Announced Monday By Joe Strupp Published: April 17, 2006 3:05 PM ET NEW YORK The New York Times and The Washington Post were the top winners as this year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism were announced at Columbia University shortly after 3 p.m. ET on Monday afternoon. In an unusual event, there were two winners in two categories, including the coveted Public Service slot -- shared by the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. The Post won four prizes and the Times won three. The Times-Picayune had not been named one... Editor and Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616680/posts#comment Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1679494/posts http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5740 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1679494/posts#comment Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630655/posts In a National Public Radio interview just days after the Washington Post published her Pulitzer Prize winning article on the CIA’s "secret prisons," Dana Priest predicted that her work would cause "political embarrassment" for the Bush administration. Her prediction was not clairvoyance-based. The Washington Post released the article at a point of maximum impact—the eve of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s crucial visit to America’s European allies in the War on Terror. Priest’s shocking claims did more than embarrass the administration; they harmed America’s national security and intelligence gathering capabilities during a time of war. The allegations and insinuations of... Sweetness and Light http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630655/posts#comment Thu, 11 May 2006 19:15:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1627174/posts I came across an article written a few weeks ago and was even more amazed than usual at how little truth the piece contained. The title is ominous -- Iraq Quagmire, Domestic Troubles Have Bush Setting Sites on Iran -- and the writer, John Hanchette, has credentials out the yin-yang. John Hanchette, a professor of journalism at St. Bonaventure University, is a former editor of the Niagara Gazette and a Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent. He was a founding editor of USA Today and was recently named by Gannett as one of the Top 10 reporters of the past 25 years.... Stingray: a blog for salty Christians http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1627174/posts#comment Fri, 5 May 2006 09:53:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622542/posts Update: In 2002 the WaPo called the International detention (prison) story vital - in 2005 they quote another official calling it a burden. In 2002 they informed people that Clinton initiated the practice of extraordinary rendition. In 2005, they made it look like a creation of George Bush. What changed? RiehlWorldView http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622542/posts#comment Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:49:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621629/posts WASHINGTON, April 25 — The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday defended the firing of Mary O. McCarthy, the veteran officer who was dismissed last week, and challenged her lawyer's statements that Ms. McCarthy never provided classified information to the news media. But intelligence officials would not say whether they believed that Ms. McCarthy had been a source for a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles in The Washington Post about secret C.I.A. detention centers abroad. Media accounts have linked Ms. McCarthy's firing to the articles, but the C.I.A. has never explicitly drawn such a connection (snip) A C.I.A. spokeswoman, Jennifer Millerwise... NYTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621629/posts#comment Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:57:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621092/posts Of Pulitzers and treason By Pat Buchanan Apr 25, 2006 Mary McCarthy, special assistant to President Clinton and senior director of intelligence in his White House, has been fired by the CIA. McCarthy allegedly told The Washington Post our NATO allies were secretly letting the CIA operate bases on their soil for the interrogation of terror suspects. Apparently, McCarthy failed several polygraph tests, after which she confessed. If true, she was faithless to her oath, betrayed the trust of her country, damaged America's ties to foreign intelligence agencies and governments, and broke the law. The Justice Department is investigating whether... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621092/posts#comment Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:15:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620466/posts Fired CIA intelligence analyst Mary McCarthy has reportedly confessed to leaking facts about the CIA's top-secret terrorist jails in Europe and Southwest Asia to Dana Priest of the Washington Post. As Priest basks in the glory of the Pulitzer Prize she won for those stories, McCarthy is alternately being investigated for criminal prosecution and hailed as a brave crusader for truth, justice and The American Way. McCarthy is not, as one pundit said, a courageous American citizen exercising her First Amendment rights against an outrageous government policy. If there are no restrictions enforced by law, then there are no secrets.... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620466/posts#comment Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:41:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620113/posts It appears that one of the main sources of Washington Post reporter Dana Priest’s dubious November 2, 2005, story about CIA “secret prisons” abroad was CIA officer and former Clinton official Mary O. McCarthy, whose firing by the agency because of her leaks to Priest and other journalists has been making headlines. She had been hired by Rand Beers of the Clinton National Security Council, who went on to serve as an adviser to the 2004 presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry. Mary O. McCarthy, identified as a “U.S. Government/analyst,” is listed in Federal Election Commission records as a financial... The National Ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620113/posts#comment Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:25:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1619497/posts No evidence of a story? Interesting that this lady who just won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting about illegal CIA prisons in Eastern Europe and now the story doesn't hold water. (But even if the US were interrogating Al Qaeda in Europe, I don't actually see what the big deal is) Nonetheless, maybe the Pulitzers should only go to the real stories from now on. Bizblogger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1619497/posts#comment Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:22:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617155/posts The Rocky Mountain News was honored Monday with Pulitzer Prizes in writing and photography for its unflinching look at the way U.S. Marines honor comrades who have paid the ultimate price. In a newsroom celebration marked by emotion and tears, reporter Jim Sheeler was recognized for winning in feature writing and photographer Todd Heisler in feature photography for their collaboration, "Final Salute." The special report followed a Marine major who has the difficult task of making death notifications and of helping families begin to face life after loss. And while there was tremendous satisfaction in the awards, there was also... The Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617155/posts#comment Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:13:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619284/posts LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times has suspended the blog of a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who posed as an Internet reader to defend his own column and attack his conservative foes. The Times apparently learned of Michael Hiltzik's multiple identities from another blogger, Patrick Frey, who was slammed by the columnist under a pseudonym. Frey, author of a blog called Patterico's Pontifications (www.patterico.com), traced the writer back to Hiltzik's computer. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060421/wr_nm/media_latimes_dc_3 Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619284/posts#comment Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:32:11 GMT