Washington Post, NY Times win Pulitzers for work on Trump, Putin

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Washington Post, NY Times win Pulitzers for work on Trump, Putin

By Daniel Trotta

 

Photojournalist Daniel Berehulak, facing camera, embraces Michelle McNally, the assistant editor and director of photography of The New York Times, during announcement of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in The Times newsroom in New York, U.S., April 10, 2017. Berehulak won for photographs that provided a haunting portrait of a violent anti-drug campaign in the Philippines. Sam Hodgson/Courtesy The New York Times/Handout via REUTERS

 

L-R, East Bay Times reporters Matthias Gafni, Thomas Peele, Harry Harris, Erin Baldassari and David Debolt react as they learn of their Pulitzer Prize win for breaking news at their office in downtown Oakland, California, U.S., April 10, 2017. The staff of the East Bay Times won journalism's highest honor for their coverage of the tragic Ghost Ship warehouse fire which killed 36 people in December 2016. Jane Tyska/Courtesy Bay Area News Group via REUTERS

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pulitzer Prizes on Monday honoured The Washington Post for hard-hitting reporting on Donald Trump's presidential campaign and The New York Times for revealing Vladimir Putin's covert power grab, praising their probing of powerful people despite a hostile climate for the news media.

 

The Daily News of New York and ProPublica, a web-based platform specializing in investigative journalism, won the prize for public service journalism for coverage of New York police abuses that forced mostly poor minorities from their homes.

 

Other winners included an international consortium of more than 300 reporters on six continents that exposed the so-called Panama Papers detailing the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens used by the high and mighty.

 

The Pulitzers, the most prestigious honours in American journalism, have been awarded since 1917, often going to famed publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

 

But they are also given to smaller, lesser known publications across the country whose work does not always gain national attention when it is published.

 

Reporter Eric Eyre of Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia took the prize for investigative reporting for exposing opioids flooding into depressed West Virginia counties with the country's highest overdose death rates.

 

The staff of the East Bay Times of Oakland, California, won the breaking news award for coverage of the "Ghost Ship" fire that killed 36 people at a warehouse party, exposing the city's failure to take actions that might have prevented the disaster.

 

'TRANSPARENT JOURNALISM'

 

While the Pulitzer ceremony highlighted the news media's importance to democracy, it has been challenged by so-called fake news, which once referred to fabricated stories meant to influence the U.S. election but has become a term used by Trump to dismiss factual reporting that is critical. Trump has frequently excoriated the media and in February called it "the enemy of the American people."

 

Operating in the glare of the presidential campaign, David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post took the national reporting award. The judges said he "created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage while casting doubt on Donald Trump's assertions of generosity toward charities."

 

Fahrenthold found that Trump's charitable giving had not always matched his public statements. He also broke perhaps the biggest scoop of the campaign, revealing Trump had been captured on videotape making crude remarks about women and bragging about kissing and grabbing them without their permission.

 

The Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, a longtime Republican, took the commentary prize for a series of critical pieces about Trump during the real estate magnate's successful 2016 run for the White House.

 

The New York Times staff won the international reporting prize for articles on Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to project Russia's power abroad, a particularly pertinent story given U.S. intelligence conclusions that Putin's government actively tried to influence the U.S. election in Trump's favour.

 

The Times revealed "techniques that included assassination, online harassment and the planting of incriminating evidence on opponents," the judges said.

 

The 19-member Pulitzer board is made up of past winners and other distinguished journalists and academics. It chose the winners with the help of 102 jurors.

 

More than 2,500 entries were submitted this year, competing for 21 prizes in categories.

 

Seven awards recognise fiction, drama, history, biographies, poetry, general nonfiction and music.

 

Author Colson Whitehead won the fiction award for "The Underground Railroad," a work the judges said "combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America."

 

The Pulitzers began in 1917 after a bequest from newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

 

(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-04-11

[dageurreotype]

Somewhat akin to Obama being awarded the Peace Prize. These backslapping trinkets mean absolutely sod all now.

[tomwct]

34 minutes ago, dageurreotype said:

Somewhat akin to Obama being awarded the Peace Prize. These backslapping trinkets mean absolutely sod all now.

 

They should have gotten the Pulitzer's for "Slurping over Obama for eight years and doing no reporting"! 

 

God Bless America and President Donald Trump!

[Scott]

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[boomerangutang]

1 hour ago, dageurreotype said:

Somewhat akin to Obama being awarded the Peace Prize. These backslapping trinkets mean absolutely sod all now.

                         I don't agree.  Pulitzer prizes are the most prestigious for journalists.

 

                   It's a slap in the face to Trumpsters, because Trump has been specifically mentioning the Wash Post and NY Times - numerous times, as fake news.    Anyone with half a brain has known, all along, that the reason Trump is attacking them is because their reports are on the bulls eye.  Similarly, Al Capone probably hated the Chicago Tribune for reporting accurately about his law-breaking at the time.  Same same.    

 

                 When Trump is hauled before court as a defendant, he will hate the judge, hate the jury, hate anyone who doesn't gloss-over his law-breaking treasonous actions.   

 

                   Trump can fire investigators, lawyers, and Federal judges who are taxpayer-paid (like he fired a circuit court attorney in NY who was investigating Trump), but he can't fire journalists. That won't stop him from trying every sort of dirty trick to get them fired.   Trump is the lowest type of human.  He is scant better than Mugabe, Assad or Fat Boy Kim.

 

 

Edited April 11, 2017 by boomerangutang

[Thaidream]

Donald Trump will eventually go down in History as the worst President America ever had. He is a serial liar and lacks competence to even understand the nuances needed to be President.  To date, he has accomplished nothing- except to anger just about everyone. His treatment  and cavalier attitude towards American allies is a disgrace. His insistence on banning people from certain countries nothing more than a sham and of no value.

His policies are destroying the American tourist industry- no one wants to come and be questioned about their personal lives and then have their cell phes/computers searched.

 

His use of American military power is questionable and to do it while the President of China was making a state visit shows how completely incompetent this man is. The one thing Trump fears is the press- because they don't stop digging and watching and Trump has plenty to hide.  He will eventually be impeached or be removed under the 25th Amendment.

[heybruce]

This just in: Donald Trump calls the Pulitzer a "Fake Prize".  The Trump Foundation has just created a new journalism prize called the Trump (what else?) and immediately awarded it to Breitbart News.