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The Pulitzer Prizes:
2012 Winners and Finalists — Journalism Public Service The Philadelphia Inquirer Breaking News Reporting The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News Staff Investigative Reporting Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of the Associated Press Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong …
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New York Times, Associated Press, New York Magazine, @ariannahuff, The Stranger …, @lheron, Columbia University …, Poynter, Gawker, NY Daily News, @ezraklein, @andreastonez, @ahmed, Business Insider, @seansimmers, @ericcarvin, @medillschool, The Daily What, @fishbowlny, @purvi21, @ahmed, @omarwaraich, @attackerman, @lexinyt, @amandablair, @stevefriess, @phillyinquirer, @katz, @columbia, @marynmck, Nieman Foundation News, The New York Observer and Change of Subject
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Sara Ganim, 24, wins Pulitzer for coverage of Penn State sex abuse scandal — Sara Ganim had a motto when reporting on the sex abuse scandal at Penn State University: “Move it forward.” She wanted to address unanswered questions and tell a side of the story that national media outlets weren't capturing.
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American Journalism Review, PennLive.com, Athens News, @meganhealey, Jezebel and Hillman Foundation blogs
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Pulitzer Committee Confirms: Editorial Writing Is Worthless — Your 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced! [Pause.] That very faint sound you hear is the cheering of a dozen or so newsrooms across America, interspersed with the vast silence of a nation that could not care less about the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners.
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The Wrap, Media & Entertainment, New York Times, Capital New York, Gannett Blog, @jackshafer, The Daily Beast and @mlcalderone
Erik Wemple:
Pulitzer Prizes: Editorial writers come up short — Don't blame the jury. — That's one lesson to take away from the announcement of today's Pulitzer Prizes. Or non-prizes, as the case may be. — Though the Pulitzer board awarded two top distinctions in the category of investigative journalism …
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New York Magazine, Lens and Online NewsHour
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Online journalism shines in 2012 Pulitzer picks
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ap.org and The New Yorker Blog
Andrew Losowsky / The Huffington Post:
No Winner For Pulitzer Prize For Fiction This Year
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Media Decoder, Publishers Weekly, The New York Observer, The Millions, @sarahw and GalleyCat
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Huffington Post Wins Pulitzer Prize — NEW YORK — Huffington Post senior military correspondent David Wood has spent decades covering war, watching as wounded combat troops are loaded onto medical evacuation helicopters and, he said, “go off in a cloud of dust.”
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Poynter, Politico, PennLive.com, Associated Press, Adweek, Capital New York, Forbes, Agence France Presse, LA Observed, FishbowlNY, @brianstelter, @daveweigel, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis, @jayrosen_nyu, @carr2n, @ombudsman, @danielshea, @ariannahuff, @ombudsman, Newseum, @rosental, GalleyCat and FishbowlLA
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Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Huffington Post brings home the blogosphere's first ever Pulitzer — The Huffington Post has just made history as the first blog to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. — Only in the past two years have digital media outlets made the Pulitzer cut. ProPublica, an independent nonprofit journalism outfit …
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The Editorialiste
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why the Huffington Post doesn't equivocate on issues like global warming — The Huffington Post wants gobs of traffic. It also want reader engagement. But there are some things it just won't do — like equivocate on whether climate change is real. — HuffPost Science recently featured …
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Grist
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
‘GMA’ Appears To Nudge ‘Today’ From Top Spot After 16 Years — Update, 12:55 p.m.: ABC's “Good Morning America” appears to have prevailed over NBC's “Today” show for the first week in over 16 years. — Preliminary Nielsen ratings, paid for by both networks and provided by ABC on Monday …
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Mark Lewis, Lawyer in Phone-Hacking Case, Chases News Corporation in U.S. — Rupert Murdoch has made a career of painting his critics as elitist, privileged and out of touch. But the English lawyer who stands at the center of the legal battles that have engulfed his News Corporation …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
George Zimmerman Trial Could Start a News Swarm — The Orlando Sentinel's Twitter account for the Trayvon Martin case is up and running. So, too, is its topics page, with links to all the newspaper's articles about Mr. Martin and the man who shot and killed him, George Zimmerman …
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mediabistro.com, msnbc.com, Athens News, The Huffington Post, Media Decoder, TVNewser, Free Press and Inside Cable News
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Bonnier SVP Gregg Hano Named CEO of Mag+ — Gregg Hano, currently the svp of corporate sales and the technology group at Bonnier Corp. (which includes Popular Science, Popular Photography, American Photo and Sound + Vision magazines), was named CEO of smartphone and tablet publishing platform Mag+ …
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MediaPost, FishbowlNY, Folio and MinOnline
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Why I Never Became Mediaite's Fox News Mole — Like Joe Muto, the ex-O'Reilly Factor producer now known as Gawker's “Fox Mole,” I too ceased working at Fox News last week. I too had qualms about working at Fox initially and, throughout my three years there, had concerns about some of the network's programming.
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Syracuse announces Mirror Awards finalists — Sycracuse's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has made its picks for the best coverage of media in 2011. The finalists' work appeared in major publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Washington Post …
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Mirror Awards 2012, Change The Ratio and FishbowlNY
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
Gingrich Staffer Promptly Shuts Down Interview After Student Reporter Asks About Roger Ailes' Remark — A reporter for the University of North Carolina's paper, The Daily Tar Heel, wrote a piece describing an interview with GOP hopeful (he's still in the race, in case you forgot) Newt Gingrich.
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The Daily Tar Heel, Politico, Erik Wemple, Indecision Forever, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Cuomo Aide Slammed Reporter In Dossier — A top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo assembled a 35-page dossier on the work of an Albany political reporter considered hostile to his administration, highlighting any shred of criticism in a document that reflects the intense sensitivity …
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