Pulitzer Prizes

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/04/pulitzer-prizes

It looks like one of the tickets to a Pulitzer Prize is having one's work criticized on FutureOfCapitalism. Congratulations to the winners announced yesterday afternoon. They include:

• The health-care editorial writer at the Wall Street Journal, Joseph Rago. There are no bylines on editorials, but the Journal's editorials about health care — apparently not the ones that were part of the Pulitzer entry — were criticized on this site here, here, here, and here.
• A reporter at ProPublica, Jesse Eisinger, who won in part for his article on Magnetar that was criticized in a post here, and whose other work was criticized in a post here.
• An economics columnist at the New York Times, David Leonhardt, whose work was criticized in posts on this site here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Bloomberg News was a finalist in the "public service" category for its work "that revealed how some for-profit colleges exploit low-income students, leading to a federal crackdown on a multi-billion-dollar industry." That coverage was criticized on this site, here and here.

The Pulitzer board includes Mr. Rago's editor at the Wall Street Journal, Paul Gigot, along with Columbia University's $1,753,984-a-year president, Lee Bollinger.

by Ira Stoll  |  Apr 19, 2011 at 8:41 am Related Topics:  Compensation, Education, Health Care, Non-Profits, Press receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list