We'll find out today at 3 p.m. ET whether journalism about rural American gets recognized when the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes are announced. The event is being livestreamed from the World Room of the journalism building at Columbia University.
Last year the Charlotte Sun, a 30,000-circulation daily newspaper in Southwest Florida, won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for its series demanding truth and change in response to the deadly assault of an inmate by corrections officers. In 2015 only two newspapers with circulations under 100,000 won Pulitzers.
Stories with rural angles already have been honored in other awards this year. Alec MacGillis of ProPublica won the national-reporting prize in Long Island University’s George Polk Awards for his story identifying "trends among voters in Rust Belt states that 'the political establishment ignored, dismissed or overlooked', according to the Polks," Roy J. Harris Jr. reports for the Poynter Institute. "In addition, the Scripps Howard Foundation’s awards, which were announced in early March, honored MacGillis’s work with an award titled the 'Topic of the Year'."
Eric Eyre of the Charleston Gazette-Mail was cited by the Selden Ring Award judges at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for his investigative journalism explaining the role of the pharmaceutical industry in the opioid-abuse crisis in the state. The Gazette-Mail’s work also won the Scripps Howard First Amendment award.
Last year the Charlotte Sun, a 30,000-circulation daily newspaper in Southwest Florida, won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for its series demanding truth and change in response to the deadly assault of an inmate by corrections officers. In 2015 only two newspapers with circulations under 100,000 won Pulitzers.
Stories with rural angles already have been honored in other awards this year. Alec MacGillis of ProPublica won the national-reporting prize in Long Island University’s George Polk Awards for his story identifying "trends among voters in Rust Belt states that 'the political establishment ignored, dismissed or overlooked', according to the Polks," Roy J. Harris Jr. reports for the Poynter Institute. "In addition, the Scripps Howard Foundation’s awards, which were announced in early March, honored MacGillis’s work with an award titled the 'Topic of the Year'."
Eric Eyre of the Charleston Gazette-Mail was cited by the Selden Ring Award judges at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for his investigative journalism explaining the role of the pharmaceutical industry in the opioid-abuse crisis in the state. The Gazette-Mail’s work also won the Scripps Howard First Amendment award.
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