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| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 - 4:53 pm: |    |
Part of me gets superstitious about seeing this kind of stuff in print . . .
. . . but it's drowned out by the part that's optimistic they'll earn well-deserved honors April 20.
Excerpt from post today by senior editor Joe Strupp at Editor & Publisher, a trade mag:quote:With the Pulitzer jurors preparing to meet next week in New York to choose finalists in the 14 journalism categories, we will attempt to highlight those who appear to be frontrunners.
LOCAL NEWS:
-- Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick of the Detroit Free Press seem likely finalists and potential winners for their coverage of the Detroit mayor's scandal, in which Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was forced from office and sentenced to jail time on two felonies. The Free Press reporters obtained text messages and other evidence that led to the mayor's downfall.
Their work has already earned them a George Polk Award, a Shorenstein Goldsmith Prize finalist nod and a secondary mention in the USC Annenberg School's Selden Ring Award competition. |