EFDbackup: Journalism agenda: 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners…

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Journalism agenda: 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners…

2015 Pulitzer Prize winners

kottke.org by Jason Kottke

Anthony Doerr Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Elizabeth Kolbert won for General Nonfiction. Read more on writerswrite.com

Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog /

Big Pulitzer Prizes go to several first-time winners and local newspapers

… a small newspaper from Charleston, South Carolina, won journalism’s biggest honor, taking home the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for service journalism for its work on violence against women The series, “Till Death Do Us Part,” brought attention to the state’s at-risk female population. The Pulitzercitation called the work “a riveting series that probed why South Carolina is among the deadliest states in the union for women and put the issue of what to do about it on the state’s age

Mashable! / by Jason Abbruzzese /

Pulitzer winners named in New York

… recognized newspaper coverage of local calamities and international emergencies in the 99th annual Pulitzer Prizes on April 2

Hurriyet Daily News / 12h

Investigative Reporting on MPAA’s SOPA Revival Effort WinsPulitzer

…New York Times series on secretive corporate lobbying of state attorneys general has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting today. The entire series does important digging on an area of political influence that’s generally less transparent than Congressional lobbying. But most relevant to EFF was the revelation last December—through emails revealed in last year’s high-profile Sony breach, as well as public records obtained by the paper—that the Motion Picture Association of Am

EFF.org Updates / by Parker Higgins /

What USA Today Sports learned covering the Final Four on Periscope and Snapchat

Nieman Journalism Lab by Tanya Sichynsky

There’s no shortage of ways to reach new audiences — the challenge is figuring out which are worth investing time in and what to do with them. At USA Today Sports, where I work, two platforms we’re trying to better understand and implement into our strategies are Snapchat and Periscope. The latter launched just two weeks ago, right before college basketball’s Final Four.

Newsonomics: The Wall Street Journal is playing a game of digital catchup

Nieman Journalism Lab by Ken Doctor