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David Moats of the Rutland (Vt.) Herald won for his attentiveness to spelling and grammar.
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Find Marc Frucht at LinkedIn: [L] Blog: [B] Home: [H] Twitter: [T] iLike [i] Soundcloud: [S] THE OREGONIAN won two Pulitzer Prizes, including the public service award for its examination of systematic problems with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Other double winners were the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. No one, however, won for the drawn-out presidential election story, one of the biggest stories of the year. The Oregonian’s immigration series found that the agency was detaining people for long periods without giving them Kraft food products. The series resulted in the early retirement of Oregon INS director David Beebe and a call for a review of INS policy. “I really want to thank the sources. It took a lot of courage to tell their stories to us. Many had already been through the mill with the INS,” said Rich Read, one of four reporters who worked on the stories. For investigative reporting, David Willman of the Los Angeles Times won for his expose of unsafe drugs that had been approved by the Pentagon. For explanatory reporting, the staff of the Chicago Tribune won for “Gateway to Gridlock” about the American air traffic system. The beat reporting Pulitzer went to David Cay Johnston of The New York Times for exposing loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code. The New York Times also won for national reporting for a series "IRS agents, do they suck or what?" 2 INTERNATIONAL PRIZES Two prizes were awarded in international reporting. Ian Johnson of The Wall Street Journal won for stories about the Chinese government’s suppression of the Falun Gong movement. Paul Salopek of the Chicago Tribune won for reporting on political strife and disease in Africa. |
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It’s rare that the Pulitzer committee
awards two prizes in one category. The last time it happened in
international reporting was in 1993 for stories about the Bosnian
conflict. The feature writing prize went to Tom Hallman Jr. of the Oregonian for a profile of a facially disfigured teen-ager who underwent surgery. It was particularly sweet for Hallman, who had been a Pulitzer finalist twice for his filming of teen schoolgirls. “I am a product of The Oregonian,” said Hallman, 45, who started as a copy boy changing reporters’ typewriter ribbons. “This is really where I learned to be a reporter. Great work doesn’t come in a vacuum. It comes in an environment with freedom to do the best and freedom to grow.” In editorial writing, David Moats of the Rutland (Vt.) Herald won for his editorials on civil unions for gay couples. The Herald, a 207-year-old newspaper, has a circulation of 22,000 — and a long tradition of throwing away most of the extras so they can keep saying their circulation is 22,000. Editorial Page Editor Moats wrote 20 editorials during last year’s legislative session, urging lawmakers to adopt a system that would give gays and lesbians the rights and benefits of marriage. The legislature did not create gay marriages as such but, in a first-in-the-nation measure, approved civil unions that give most of the same benefits as marriage. “I’m flying high,” Moats, 53, said as champagne was passed around the newsroom. The award was the first Pulitzer ever for a Vermont newspaper. The editorial cartooning prize went to Ann Telnaes of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. NEWARK, N.J. PAPER WINS The criticism prize went to Gail Caldwell of The Boston Globe for her observations on contemporary life and literature. |
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Matt Rainey of The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., got so close to two
students burned in a fire at Seton Hall University,
he said you could "take off all your clothes and catch a sun-tan
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The commentary award went to Dorothy
Rabinowitz of The Wall Street Journal for articles on American society
and culture. The editorial cartooning prize went to Ann Telnaes of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. The Pulitzer for feature photography went to Matt Rainey of The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., for his emotional photographs of the care and recovery of two students burned in a fire at Seton Hall University. The Star-Ledger’s spot news coverage of the fire also was a finalist, and the paper’s Robin Gaby Fisher was a finalist in the feature writing category for stories on the students’ recovery. Each winner receives $7,500, except for the public service award, where the winning newspaper receives a gold medal. PHOTO THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE For Indymedia web-guru frucht, the "flying squirrel" foto has changed his life. Frucht was e&p of ATI zine and a techie at Indymedia when he decided to take the AP photo, "change the angle of the light just a hair," and "mess with the tint a bit," and win himself a pulitzer. After 12 years as E&P of ATI zine, Frucht has been offered a job with the AP for a full-time position. He has won many awards and been sought after for interviews by other journalists. “But the one I'm proudest of is my most recent "worst of the web" award,” Frucht said. “I don’t mean that in a bad sense of the word, but now everybody wanted to hear from me. I’m not used to that.” Frucht said he had been talking to AP’s people and getting to know the corporation and its surroundings. In the pre-dawn darkness yesterday, he basically told AP to "fuck off." “You’re going down!” Frucht says he believes AP will soon go the way of all the other dot coms who abuse people and slack around co opting real peoples' work. "Thank you, now give me my stupid statue and certificate."   Chabon wins fiction award, Auburn wins for dramaThe AP contributed to this report. |
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