May 8, 2023

How do you get journalists back in newsrooms again in large numbers? Assuming there still is a newsroom?

From the tweets we’re seeing, it looks like telling them that it’s Pulitzer Prize day is one good strategy.

Newsrooms around the country, local and national, big and small, hosted gatherings to watch for winners of the prizes on Monday. You can read the full list of winners here.

Here below, find some of the big day’s big gatherings:

The Los Angeles Times won Pulitzers for Breaking News Reporting and Feature Photography.

 

 

 

Here’s The Washington Post, where Caroline Kitchener won for National Reporting, Eli Saslow won for Feature Reporting, and Toluse Olorunnipa won, along with Robert Samuels, for General Nonfiction in the Letters, Drama and Music Prizes:

 

 

Here’s a scene from The Wall Street Journal, which won the prize for Investigative Reporting:

 

And from Mississippi Today, where Anna Wolfe won for Local Reporting:

 

Here’s Gimlet Media, which won for audio reporting:

 

 

John Archibald, who was part of the team from Al.com that won for local reporting (the newsroom also won for commentary,) tweeted this:

 

Send your favorite tweets to khare@poynter.org and I’ll add them to the collection.

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Kristen Hare is Poynter's director of craft and local news. She teaches local journalists the critical skills they need to serve and cover their communities.…
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