Ganim / Patriot-News Win Pulitzer for Sandusky / PSU Coverage

[Azrael]

www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Local-Reporting

 

[MileHigh]

The easiest decision the board had.

 

[JayFarrar]

I think that makes her the youngest Pulitzer winner ever.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Tremendous work and very well deserved.

 

[wicked]

Congrats to Sara and the rest of the staff in Harrisburg.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Our editor, David Newhouse, toasts Sara after the announcement.

I'm very happy for her and the other writers and editors involved in that stunning body of work.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

How is she still there?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If that's Sara on the right, she seems like she couldn't care less. I kind of admire that.

There's a difference in being embarrassed when being singled out in front of your peers and not caring.

 

[jr/shotglass]

How is she still there?

My, that could be taken several ways.

Of course, you probably only mean it one way.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

A friend, who got his ass kicked on this story, told me, "I'd like to see how she does when the scandal happens some place other than her alma mater."

I say that's bull****. It's all about how you react when the news is breaking and it's not like this was the only paper in the country chasing this story. Even when the huge papers descended upon Penn State, she still kicked all of their asses.

She did an amazing job. I'm just curious where her next job will be.

 

[LongTimeListener]

She's a great example that "right place, right time" is only going to get you so far. There are a million other reporters -- myself included -- who wouldn't have owned this story and, as so often happens, the news-breaking would have been ceded to the big guns when they descended. (Hello, Orlando Sentinel.)

But she dominated it start to finish.

EDIT: Mizzou beat me to it, so, ditto.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I think you're reading too much into it, Creosote.

To me there's a difference between this -- an award that comes after the reporting and didn't drive it -- and the kinds of "project journalism" that is done with the specific goal of winning awards. The latter is the kind of thing David Simon railed against.

 

[podunk press]

It's one picture!

Do we have live video of the toast? Otherwise, it's silly to judge.

A huge congrats to Harrisburg, the staff there and the reporter for their brilliant work.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Even though it happened in her backyard, it's not like this was just a one-day event. She kicked ass and continued to kick ass...

I worked at a paper where we had an unspeakable tragedy happen in our backyard. We covered the hell out of it and won a Pulitzer for it. I remember when they announced it, when the publisher called it a "great day in the newspaper's history" a lot of us, myself included, were sickened by the "celebration" that followed, without properly acknowledging the tragedy that had taken place.

There was no perspective there. I remember one of the bosses said, "How hard would it have been just to say, 'I'm proud of all of you for all of the fantastic hard work you did during that terrible time."

 

[steveu]

It's probably sinking in still... "I won WHAT?"

I just hope this prize is an E-ticket for her. I don't know Sara, but she owned this story and Harrisburg proved its worth on this one. Congratulations to the PN and the staff.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I think the shock would have been if she hadn't won.

 

[SellOut]

How is she still there?

This is just a guess, but I would imagine that she will stick around until the story/trial comes to completion and then entertain leaving. And I can imagine they will do EVERYTHING they can to keep her around until Sandusky trial is over.

 

[CNY]

I worked at a paper where we had an unspeakable tragedy happen in our backyard. We covered the hell out of it and won a Pulitzer for it. I remember when they announced it, when the publisher called it a "great day in the newspaper's history" a lot of us, myself included, were sickened by the "celebration" that followed, without properly acknowledging the tragedy that had taken place.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/tornado-victims-thank-news-organization-for-its-in,20838/

 

[MileHigh]

Her reaction here probably says, yes, she cares.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/pulitzer_prize.html

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I worked at a paper where we had an unspeakable tragedy happen in our backyard. We covered the hell out of it and won a Pulitzer for it. I remember when they announced it, when the publisher called it a "great day in the newspaper's history" a lot of us, myself included, were sickened by the "celebration" that followed, without properly acknowledging the tragedy that had taken place.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/tornado-victims-thank-news-organization-for-its-in,20838/

That's funny...