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Canada Goose Jackets Roy J. Louis Post Dispatch until his death in 1911 created the Pulitzer Prizes through his will, back when national awards were rare. He wanted the prizes to go to the year’s best in journalism and in American arts and letters, as a way to elevate public esteem for canada goose outlet in chicago the media. As anticipation builds in America’s newsrooms for Monday’s announcement of the 98th round of the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University, let’s examine some of the myths surrounding the awards. Canada Goose Jackets

1. Pulitzer Prizes honor the best of American journalism.

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It canada goose outlet ontario may seem that way in years when one large publication grabs a hefty number of prizes, as when the New York Times canada goose outlet online won seven Pulitzers in 2002 or when The Washington Post took home six in 2008. But canada goose outlet houston there always seems to be at least one smaller winner in the group of 14 and often in the public service or breaking news categories.

In 2012, the Tuscaloosa News staff won the breaking news award for coverage of a tornado that devastated that Alabama city, and Sara Ganim and other staffers of Harrisburg, Pa.’s Patriot News won the local reporting prize for reporting on the Penn State sex abuse scandal. My favorite David and Goliath public service award went to the Point canada goose outlet online store Reyes (Calif.) Light in 1979. The 7,000 circulation weekly exposed how an anti drug abuse group became a dangerous cult.

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Canada Goose sale Unlike the Oscars, whose finalists are known weeks canada goose outlet ottawa in advance, the Pulitzers don’t disclose who was in the running until the day the prizes are announced. While there once were widespread leaks of finalists by a group of journalists called “the Cabal” that made a practice of rooting out a list after the jury selections in recent years it’s been more of a guessing game. Canada Goose sale

Much of today’s canada goose outlet montreal Pulitzer secrecy stems from the board’s efforts to shore up the canada goose outlet price leaks. But the Pulitzer organization always has been tight lipped, including about why one entry canada goose outlet in usa wins out over other finalists. And the secret deepens when no award is given in a category. No prize was awarded in 2012 for editorial writing or in 2011 for breaking news reporting, for instance. In the arts, the most shocking omission was also in 2012, when no fiction prize was given.

In the days between the Pulitzer board’s final selections and the Monday announcement, some editors of winning publications get word. But plenty of winners still are caught off guard, such as Alexandra Berzon, whose stories on construction industry deaths helped the Las Vegas Sun win the public service prize in 2009. Berzon was canada goose outlet mall covering a court hearing when the Pulitzer was announced; she found out about it when a receptionist congratulated her when she returned to the newsroom.

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As the Pulitzers evolved, the canada goose outlet jackets winners gave newspapers models for great reporting. The soaring reputation of the Pulitzers in the 1920s and ’30s led editors and reporters to try harder to win them: More projects were planned, and more resources were canada goose outlet reviews put into investigative teams. That also meant there were some cases of chasing prizes first and serving readers second.

canada goose store But Pulitzer winning projects can produce monumental change. After the Las Vegas Sun exposed safety violations and how casinos, regulators and even unions put a low priority on worker health, deaths on the city’s work sites stopped. The Boston Globe’s articles that won the 2003 public service prize, uncovering sexual abuse canada goose sale uk of young parishioners by Catholic priests, sparked canada goose outlet toronto factory global reforms. And The Washington Post’s investigation of canada goose factory outlet vancouver mistreatment of wounded veterans at canada goose outlet online store review Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the public service canada goose outlet las vegas winner in 2008, succeeded in “evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials,” the Pulitzer board said. canada goose store

As newspapers navigate financial hardships, many are keeping their investigative teams, even if investors sometimes see them as inefficient.

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