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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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New York City schools went online instead of calling a snow day. It didn’t go well

Shelia Pearson
New York City schools went online instead of calling a snow day. It didn’t go well




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“The Times”: A record of the New York Occasions by Adam Nagourney, reviewed.

Shelia Pearson
“The Times”: A record of the New York Occasions by Adam Nagourney, reviewed.

“Will the New York Occasions make it?” That was the matter of the city-hall conference that the newspaper’s then-government editor, Bill Keller, held for his nervous employees in the late 2000s. He walked onstage to the tune “Not Dead Yet” from the musical “Spamalot.”

Nowadays, when the New York Occasions has nearly 10 million having to pay subscribers and posts yearly profits in the hundreds of millions of pounds, it is uncomplicated to ignore how bleak its long term appeared 15 several years in the past. But as Adam Nagourney recounts in his masterful new background, “The Occasions: How the Newspaper of Document Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism,” its yo-yoing economic fortunes are usual of the turbulence that has dogged the paper for the previous 4 a long time as it has struggled to protect its place as the country’s — arguably the world’s — preeminent information outlet.

The turmoil chronicled in the first half of Nagourney’s e book, which addresses the yrs from 1977 to 2001, played out mainly driving the scenes. Govt Editor Abe Rosenthal, who had been working the newsroom considering the fact that 1969, was outstanding but abusive.

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