Note: The
Pulitzer Prizes were awarded yesterday for excellence in journalism in 14
categories, plus literature and music. The top award, for public service, went
to the South Florida Sun Sentinel for its coverage of the Parkland high school
shooting. The Capital Gazette, which lost five staff in a newsroom shooting,
received a special award. Click here for a full listing of this year’s prizes in journalism, first awarded in 1917.
“I
want to break with tradition and offer my sincere admiration for an entry that
did not win but that should give us all hope for the future of journalism in
this great democracy. . . .”
“These
budding journalists remind us of the media’s unwavering commitment to bearing
witness — even in the most wrenching of circumstances — in service to a nation
whose very existence depends on a free and dedicated press.
“There
is hope in their example, even as security threats to journalists are greater
than ever. And there is hope even as some degrade the media as an enemy to the
very democracy it serves.
“Of
course the press will endure, because, as the founding fathers knew well, there
can be no democracy without it.”
—Dana Canedy, Pulitzer Prize administrator, recognizing 17
obituaries of Parkland high school shooting victims written by the staff of The
Eagle Eye, “The Press Will Endure,” Pulitzer.org, April
15, 2019.
• Editorial Comment: Keep the faith.
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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD
“I
don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If
you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a
little.” —Tom Stoppard
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