For years,
E&P's Joe Strupp has been providing the best Pulitzer preview coverage, IDing worthy candidates, breaking names of finalists, reporting on how and when winners find out they won, and more, including the aftermath. The late Deborah Howell helped with some of this. Hopefully, Joe will be back in the saddle to do it again this year. Meanwhile, our friend Roy Harris, who has interviewed Strupp about his mission in the past and written an excellent book on the history of the Pulitzers--now in paperback--has
a lengthy post on all this for 2010 over at Poynter. Don't miss it. Here's how it opens:
The start of a new year means the end of an annual scramble for some news outlet: to try to publish their best projects by year's-end, making them eligible for most contests. In the last decade, seven of the 10 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service included either a series published in December or a critical wrap-up article for a longer-term project.
Though it's too early to say what newspaper and online journalists will be entering in contests -- the Pulitzer deadline is Feb. 1 -- one admittedly rough, unscientific measure suggests that judges may have fewer year-end, blockbuster projects to consider this year.
For years, E&P's Joe Strupp has been providing the best Pulitzer preview coverage, IDing worthy candidates, breaking names of finalists, reporting on how and when winners find out they won, and more, including the aftermath. The late Deborah Howell helped with some of this. Hopefully, Joe will be back in the saddle to do it again this year. Meanwhile, our friend Roy Harris, who has interviewed Strupp about his mission in the past and written an excellent book on the history of the Pulitzers--now in paperback--has a lengthy post on all this for 2010 over at Poynter. Don't miss it. Here's how it opens:
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