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A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

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Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

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Oh plz... just as Obama was given the Nobel peace prize before becoming President (and killing a lot of people by bombing them once he was President.) Did we just award the Pulitzer to an undergrad? OK- but let's not pretend that the Pulitzer matters.

I think your point is that awards are overrated.

Awards could be made to matter, I suppose, but if they are simply a matter of culture war signaling I'm not inclined to take them very seriously.

Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

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post #47

Oh plz... just as Obama was given the Nobel peace prize before becoming President (and killing a lot of people by bombing them once he was President.) Did we just award the Pulitzer to an undergrad? OK- but let's not pretend that the Pulitzer matters.

No, the Pulitzer prize was awarded to a team that included a rising masters student.

Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

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post #49

Is swearing, especially saying "fuck you", usual way to congratulate someone in US?

Yep! I'm the same age as her, and this is how we all speak to each other immediately upon earning/winning/receiving something incredible. It's from a place of love, but only works with friends and close acquaintances.

Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, She had the idea to create the database out of unstructured paper arrest slips which gave coverage and statistical credibility to the effort. Key in the entire operation.

Exactly this. She deserves the attention she's getting. And she did the grunt work daily, which is important to call out. Reminds me of the ChicagoCrime.org feet-on-street data wrangling story. A great idea and the persistence to follow through.

Not to mention visiting the county jail each morning, when most interns would just be out getting Starbucks.

Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Had you actually read the article, you would have seen that: > From there, she took it upon herself to create a database for Enquirer reporters, documenting the time, location, and nature of every opioid-related arrest that occured over those days. The article also says that because of that database they were able to fill gaps in the article and make it as compelling as it was.

She seems worthy of being added to the byline, but I don't think its right for you to be so dismissive of OP's point. GP wrote a statement that sounds like "interns should be added to the byline for pulitzer prizes." The way its written sounds like a general statement. In reality, I'm not sure this is a reasonable expectation (as in, the word "should" seems inappropriate.) We should consider what makes someones work…

It's an interesting award. Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for denying the holodomor, and he was awarded a Pulitzer for his work, a Pulitzer that the Times has yet to address.

The reality that Duranty denied was comparable to the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people died and the Times apologized for it.

Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

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post #58

That story was absolutely amazing. The most shocking part of it to me was that there is an organized effort to ban cops from carrying Naxalone, because some people actually believe that heroin addicts deserve to die... We live in a sick world...

Citation? I find it a strange concept.

In general there is an argument against which is - it's better suited to medical professionals. Which is far from "because heroin addicts deserve to die"

At best a we don't care argument.

Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

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post #43

Interestingly it is very difficult to figure out what the story she reported on is about given all the hoopla around a Latina winning the Pulitzer.

It was quite easy to figure out what the story she worked on what about, as approximately a third of the linked article is devoted to explaining that story and how she contributed to it.

Is there any gender/race stuff here? The linked story doesn't bring her race up at all, and only mentions her gender to the extent that it uses pronouns. I went and did a quick google news search, and didn't see any discussion of it in those terms, though I'll certainly admit I might have missed it.

For that matter, in this comments section, you're the only one who brought either of those things up. What's up with that?

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