Maura and I had a chance to attend a presentation tonight at the Boston Public Library by the author of a new book on the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, which the Beacon Journal won for its 1993 "A Question of Color" series.
“Pulitzer’s Gold” is the first book to trace the 90-year history of the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded annually to a newspaper rather than to individuals.
Author Roy J. Harris Jr. recalls dozens of stories behind the stories, often allowing the journalists involved to share their own accounts. Readers will recognize some of the stories, like the New York Times’ Pentagon Papers exclusive and the Watergate scandal that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein dug out for the Washington Post.
But Harris takes his Gold Medal saga through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights struggle, and the Vietnam era before bringing public-service journalism into today’s age of environmental and corporate exposés. Story after story illustrates how for small town papers or metropolitan dailies alike, public-service reporting is a point of pride for the American press.
About the Author
Roy J. Harris Jr. is former deputy chief of the Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau and a senior editor of The Economist Group's CFO Magazine. He lives in Hingham, Massachusetts.
"At a time when the business model of the American newspaper lies broken, this book tells us, by vivid examples, why newspapers are essential to our national well-being. It is a sobering yet inspiring message." — John S. Carroll, former Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, and Lexington Herald-Leader editor, and Pulitzer Prize Board member from 1993 to 2002.
Click on the headline for the book's website.
Click here for reviews in the Philadelphia Inquirer and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
This year's Pulitzers will be announced on Monday.
“Pulitzer’s Gold” is the first book to trace the 90-year history of the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded annually to a newspaper rather than to individuals.
Author Roy J. Harris Jr. recalls dozens of stories behind the stories, often allowing the journalists involved to share their own accounts. Readers will recognize some of the stories, like the New York Times’ Pentagon Papers exclusive and the Watergate scandal that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein dug out for the Washington Post.
But Harris takes his Gold Medal saga through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights struggle, and the Vietnam era before bringing public-service journalism into today’s age of environmental and corporate exposés. Story after story illustrates how for small town papers or metropolitan dailies alike, public-service reporting is a point of pride for the American press.
About the Author
Roy J. Harris Jr. is former deputy chief of the Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau and a senior editor of The Economist Group's CFO Magazine. He lives in Hingham, Massachusetts.
"At a time when the business model of the American newspaper lies broken, this book tells us, by vivid examples, why newspapers are essential to our national well-being. It is a sobering yet inspiring message." — John S. Carroll, former Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, and Lexington Herald-Leader editor, and Pulitzer Prize Board member from 1993 to 2002.
Click on the headline for the book's website.
Click here for reviews in the Philadelphia Inquirer and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
This year's Pulitzers will be announced on Monday.
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