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2009 Pulitzer Prize winners

GetListy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:20:06 +0000

Columbia University today announced the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

JOURNALISM

Public Service — Las Vegas Sun
Breaking News Reporting — The New York Times Staff
Investigative Reporting — David Barstow of The New York Times
Explanatory Reporting — Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times
Local Reporting — Detroit Free Press Staff
and Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of the East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ
National Reporting — St. Petersburg Times Staff
International Reporting — The New York Times Staff
Feature Writing — Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times
Commentary — Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post
Criticism — Holland Cotter of The New York Times
Editorial Writing — Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY
Editorial Cartooning — Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune
Breaking News Photography — Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald
Feature Photography — Damon Winter of The New York Times

LETTERS AND DRAMA

Fiction — Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Drama — Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History — The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
Biography — American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
Poetry — The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction — Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)

MUSIC

Double Sextet by Steve Reich, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, VA (Boosey & Hawkes).

Source: Columbia University

Newspapers likely to fold

Bill Sullivan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:42:55 +0000

When the Rocky Mountain News ceased publication last month, it sent shock waves through the newspaper industry. Print media is in big trouble, and the Rocky’s demise is probably just the first of many likely to take place this year, a trend that continued with the March 17 demise of the print version of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Some will go digital, as the P-I is attempting to do. Others will simply go away. Whatever form the transition takes, the reporting of daily news on the local level will never be the same.

24/7 Wall St. has a list of the 10 publications most likely to go out of business next. If your hometown paper is on the endangered list, read it while you can.

The Philadelphia Daily News

The Minneapolis Star Tribune

The Miami Herald

The Detroit News

The Boston Globe

San Francisco Chronicle

Chicago Sun-Times

New York Daily News

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Cleveland Plain Dealer

To read about what the future holds for these publications, visit 24/7 Wall St.

Best blogs 2009

Bill Sullivan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:37:49 +0000

As newspapers and traditional media in general struggle to find a foothold in journalism’s brave new world, more and more of the spread of information will be left to bloggers.

Is that a good thing? Depends on the blog. While some are merely ego-fueled drivel, plenty of blogs are run by responsible caretakers who deliver a professional-quality product.

Time recently surveyed the blogosphere in an effort to separate wheat from chaff. The result: 25 Best Blogs 2009.

Here are the first 10:

Talking Points Memo

The Huffington Post

Lifehacker

Metafilter

The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan

The Conscience of a Liberal: Paul Krugman