2018 Pulitzer winners

Coverage of Trump, Roy Moore and metoo the big winners

Winners

 

As I said on the other thread, congratulations to the winners.

But I still don't think we should be giving Pulitzers to magazines. And I say that as someone who works in magazines.

 

I think a big problem is that there are fewer "middle-class" papers. You have the NYT and WP and then.....the scavenger class (DFM, GateHouse etc.) doesn't mean they can't do quality work, but Gannett (with McClatchy the last two "mid-majors" won two this year on enterprise - that's kind of surprising.

 

This photojournalist won a Pulitzer for an image he made on his last day in the newsroom

 

I'm glad that the Post's Roy Moore coverage won a Pulitzer for something, but is "investigative reporting" the appropriate category? I always think of "investigative reporting" as something with documentary support - sifting through public records, that kind of thing. The Post did a remarkable job, but it did a remarkable job talking to people. Even the "Spotlight" Pulitzer for the Boston Globe required going through old directories and connecting the various dots.

 

We talked at length on here about the Dylann Roof piece from "GQ" that won the feature award. Like Az, I'd like to see this restricted to traditional dailies, although that line is pretty blurred these days. The Roof piece and the "Esquire" piece on the girl convicted of talking her boyfriend into committing suicide were two magazine features that stood out to me this past year, though. I'm sure there are a few that are slipping my mind. I assume that the David Grann piece on Henry Woolsey was published in 2018, right?

 

Correct - the Grann piece was published in February 2018.

Also, Kendrick Lamar! I like his music but haven't quite worked through my feelings on him winning this. It's weird, if nothing else.

 

The winning piece on Dylan Roof is good, but when did it become so appropriate to insert oneself into a feature story, or, why is it labeled as such? The first-person was very distracting to me, and while the reporting was solid, it didn't feel to me deserving of the Pulitzer.

 

As I wrote on the other thread - it’s a very politicized Pulitzer winners list. Has it ever been this liberal? No. I doubt that.

 

Which specifically strike you as 'liberal?'

www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018

 

The word "most" indicates, well, most.

Not that it wasn't good journalism.

 

The Anti-Trump Pulitzers.