As predicted in this space months ago, my old Toledo Blade colleagues Mike Sallah and Mitch Weiss appear to be finalists for a Pulitzer Prize this year. And judging by the competition (a WaPo piece on the Nature Conservancy [!] and a NYT series on workplace safety [!]), I think it’s got a good shot. Rock on, brothers.
If I were feeling self-loathing, I’d point out that The Blade, of dinky Toledo, Ohio, has had two Pulitzer finalists in the last four years. In the last eight years, my current employer, much larger and more prestigious in every way, has had…never mind.
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05 March | 21:56 | Lisa
Go Toledo! Whooo hoooo!
05 March | 22:04 | margaret
josh, it's up to you to uphold dallas's honor. we're counting on you.
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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