They released the past year’s Pulitzer Prize winners on Monday — sadly, my name has been omitted for the fourth-straight time.
I’m kidding about that last part, but I do love reading these lists of journalists that I know and have read over the years as they are being rewarded for the important work that they are doing. The prizes encompassed stories of abuse in the workplace, construction of a border wall and a profile on Dylann Roof, who was convicted in 2016 for murdering nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina church.
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