Cincy Enquirer gets a Pulitzer

The Cincinnati Enquirer staff won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for documenting Greater Cincinnati’s heroin epidemic.

Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman won a 1991 Pulitzer for his work.

Pulitzers went to:

New York Times and Washington Post for their articles on Russia’s interference with the American election.

New York Times, for its articles on wealthy and powerful sexual predators.

Washington Post for its coverage of the Senate race in Alabama.

Arizona Republic and USA Today for its coverage of Donald Trump’s vow to built a wall along the Mexican border.

1968 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for John S. Knight, for a selection of his Editor’s Notebook weekly columns, largely opposing the Vietnam War and defending the public’s right to protest. He had begun the column in 1936 and wrote it for four decades, “in a style that would range from the wistfully poetic to the angry and agonizing,” according to Knight biographer Charles Whited.

 

1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Local Reporting for coverage of the National Guard shootings that killed four students and wounded nine at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. It included seven pages of stories and photos in the May 5 paper, and ongoing stories in the following weeks that attempted to answer questions about the shootings and the decisions that led to the confrontation.

 

1987 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting for “The Goodyear War.” The special section reconstructed the attempt by investors, led by Sir James Goldsmith, to take over Akron’s biggest employer and loyal corporate citizen, Goodyear. It examined the potential effects on 13,000 local employees, schools, thousands of retirees, the United Way, churches and many other facets of community life.

 

1994 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for “A Question of Color,” a series that urged readers to examine and discuss race relations, attitudes and how race plays a part in housing, crime, business and education. It led to the formation of Coming Together, an organization that promoted racial harmony and cultural awareness, and President Bill Clinton came to Akron to take the community’s dialogue to the rest of the country in a televised town meeting.

Pulitzer winners mostly white males

Whether you go back 100 years or the past decade, about 84% of the Pulitzer Prize winners are white and mostly male.

African-Americans have about the same percentages in this decade as they had in the 1970s and 1980s.

Women have gone from to 16% to about one-third. The total has gone from 5 in the 1970s to 52 in the past decade, mostly in feature writing and investigative reporting.

Former PD columnist Connie Schultz won a 2005 Pulitzer for commentary.

For the full article, click on http://www.cjr.org/analysis/100_years_of_data.php

4 jewels in BJ’s crown
A glorious reminder of Ol' Blue Walls' fabulous past:

1968: Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for John S. Knight, for a selection of his Editor’s Notebook weekly columns, largely opposing the Vietnam War and defending the public’s right to protest. He had begun the column in 1936 and wrote it for four decades, “in a style that would range from the wistfully poetic to the angry and agonizing,” according to Knight biographer Charles Whited.

1971: Pulitzer Prize for General Local Reporting for coverage of the National Guard shootings that killed four students and wounded nine at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. It included seven pages of stories and photos in the May 5 paper, and ongoing stories in the following weeks that attempted to answer questions about the shootings and the decisions that led to the confrontation.

1987: Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting for “The Goodyear War.” The special section reconstructed the attempt by investors, led by Sir James Goldsmith, to take over Akron’s biggest employer and loyal corporate citizen, Goodyear. It examined the potential effects on 13,000 local employees, schools, thousands of retirees, the United Way, churches and many other facets of community life.

1994: Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for “A Question of Color,” a series that urged readers to examine and discuss race relations, attitudes and how race plays a part in housing, crime, business and education. It led to the formation of Coming Together, an organization that promoted racial harmony and cultural awareness, and President Bill Clinton came to Akron to take the community’s dialogue to the rest of the country in a televised town meeting.

 

I credit Pat Englehart for being the driving force behind the Pulitzer for the Kent State coverage and Larry Williams for being the same for the Goodyear coverage.

2015 Pulitzer Winners

PUBLIC SERVICE - The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING - The Seattle Times Staff

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING - Two Prizes: - Eric Lipton of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Staff

EXPLANATORY REPORTING - Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News

LOCAL REPORTING - Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA

NATIONAL REPORTING - Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING - The New York Times Staff

FEATURE WRITING - Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times

COMMENTARY - Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle

CRITICISM - Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times

EDITORIAL WRITING - Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe

EDITORIAL CARTOONING - Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News

A finalist was Dan Perkins, drawing as Tom Tomorrow, of Daily Kos, for cartoons that create an America frozen in time whose chorus of conventional wisdom is at odds with current reality.

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY - Daniel Berehulak , freelance photographer, The New York Times

FICTION - "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)

DRAMA - "Between Riverside and Crazy" by Stephen Adly Guirgis

HISTORY - "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People " by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)

BIOGRAPHY - "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe" by David I. Kertzer (Random House)

POETRY - "Digest" by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)

GENERAL NONFICTION - "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt)

MUSIC - "Anthracite Fields" by Julia Wolfe (G. Schirmer, Inc.)