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Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others

Shelia Pearson
Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of global migration to the U.S.

Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and its aftermath produced work that resulted in two Pulitzers and a special citation. The Times won for text coverage that the Pulitzer board described as “wide-ranging and revelatory,” while the Reuters news service won for its photography. The citation went to journalists and other writers covering the war in Gaza.

The prestigious public service award went to ProPublica for reporting that “pierced the thick wall of secrecy” around the U.S. Supreme Court to show how billionaires gave expensive gifts to justices and paid for luxury travel. Reporters Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg were honored for their work.

The Pulitzers honored the best in journalism from 2023 in 15 categories, as well as eight arts categories focused on books, music and theater. The public service winner receives a gold medal. All other winners receive

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LSU coach Mulkey’s assault on Washington Post reporter hurts women’s sports activities

Shelia Pearson
LSU coach Mulkey’s assault on Washington Post reporter hurts women’s sports activities

This month of March has been electrifying with brilliant basketball on both of those sides of the border. 

On some sites, more tickets for the Last Four of the women’s NCAA tournament have been marketed than the men’s event. As a admirer of women’s university basketball, it is been thrilling to watch 6 hours a working day of game titles that look to be tight and so fiercely competitive. 

As we see women’s athletics improve in Canada and close to the globe, an vital component of the sports landscape is journalism. If we want accountability, transparency and appropriate advancement in sports activities cultures, journalism is a staple of that industry. 

A short while ago, Kim Mulkey, Louisiana Condition University’s polarizing and colourful-outfit-putting on coach (feel Don Cherry but blonde), verbally attacked a journalist from the Washington Write-up (devoid of stating his title, Kent Babb) for the reason that he is doing work on a profile of her that perceives to cast her in a damaging light.

Mulkey is not a particular person who shies absent from the spotlight, as long as she’s content with the rays. In this circumstance, she explained a “sleazy reporter” was performing on a “strike

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Barry Sussman, Washington Post editor who oversaw Watergate reporting, dies at 87

Shelia Pearson
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Barry Sussman, the Washington Post editor who directly oversaw the Watergate investigation by reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, providing invaluable — if at times unheralded — contributions to the news coverage that helped force President Richard M. Nixon from office, died June 1 at his home in Rockville, Md. He was 87.

The cause was an apparent gastrointestinal bleed, said his daughter Shari Sussman Golob.

In Hollywood and in the public eye, newspapering is often imagined as a solitary undertaking, the work of shabbily dressed reporters hunched over their keyboards with telephones cradled between shoulder and ear, barricaded in by notepads and papers piled high atop their desks.

In truth, journalism is a far more collective enterprise, with crucial roles played by people whose names do not appear below headlines in the space known in newspaper jargon as the byline. One such person, and perhaps the chief example in The Post’s unraveling of the Watergate affair, was Mr. Sussman.

A Brooklynite, Mr. Sussman began his journalism career scribbling film reviews in the darkened movie houses of New York and came to Washington by way of Appalachia, where he landed his first full-time newspaper job

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