Erika A. Niedowski, a former Sun foreign correspondent and Moscow bureau chief who was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist and later worked for The Associated Press, died Friday of undetermined causes at Rhode Island Hospital two days before her 47th birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2020-10-06 21:08:37 UTC ]
Edward P. Jones’s The Known World occupies a somewhat odd space in the literary canon: it is highly decorated, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and it was even a bestseller, but 17 years after its publication, it feels curiously underread. I acknowledge, of course, that all notions of “underread,” like... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-05 08:49:24 UTC ]
With her new novel about a talking horse, Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley continues to defy expectation—and classification. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
A big congratulations to Viet Thanh Nguyen, who is joining the Pulitzer Prize Board as its first Asian-American and Vietnamese-American member. After an extensive nominating process, the board chooses the winners from a list of finalists in each category and may additionally give a Special Award... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-08 18:40:01 UTC ]
Akhtar has crafted a phenomenal coalescence of memoir, fiction, history and cultural analysis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-31 10:55:09 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster's dominance over the Trump exposé category is likely to be reaffirmed this September 15, when the publisher will release 'Rage,' the latest title by the Pulitzer Prize–winning 'Washington Post' reporter. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Steven Millhauser: Pulitzer Prize winner. Certified Writer’s Writer. Big in France. Reported Ping-Pong champ. A master short story writer who never quite seems to get his due. George Saunders before George Saunders, though sans the gooey center. Lit Hub’s own Jonny Diamond recently called him... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-03 08:49:28 UTC ]
It’s been quite a year for Colson Whitehead! First, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (again) and then he received the Orwell Prize for political fiction. And now the Library of Congress is honoring him with their lifetime achievement prize. (Previous recipients include Toni Morrison, Denis... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-14 15:56:24 UTC ]
On May 4, Pulitzer Prize administrator Dana Canedy announced this year’s winners from her living room with some technological help Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-07-02 07:00:00 UTC ]
Renowned poets Jericho Brown (2020 Pulitzer Prize winner) and Nikky Finney (2011 National Book Award winner), formerly student and teacher, reunite to address the current moment of uprising and solidarity in the face of anti-Black violence, in a visceral conversation about art, identity, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-09 17:00:01 UTC ]
Jeffrey Gerritt, recipient of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, has been appointed editor of the Sharon Herald and Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-06-02 19:35:11 UTC ]
The New York Times Magazine was the top winner at this year's National Magazine Awards (commonly referred to as the "Ellies"), which were held as a virtual ceremony Thursday evening after the annual gala, originally set for Brooklyn in mid-March, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-05-29 01:15:13 UTC ]
'It's so easy now to turn the past into myth,' says Pulitzer Prize -winning Cundill juror Anne Applebaum. She and her colleagues flag historical analysis amid a pathogen's assault and leadership failures. The post Canada’s Cundill Prize Jurors: History, Urgency, Trump appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-05-26 10:06:37 UTC ]
Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-cheif of ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués González, president, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald, have been Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-05-20 22:01:39 UTC ]
On Monday, President Trump casually told reporters that he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug he has repeatedly touted as effective against COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The reporters seemed stunned. “I was just waiting to see your eyes light up when I... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-20 12:10:26 UTC ]
He won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing unsafe conditions in meatpacking plants. He also wrote about hunger in America and the politics of the B-1 bomber. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-05-15 17:19:24 UTC ]
The Pulitzer Prize finalist addresses the existential crisis of climate change with a story that’s alternately witty and devastating Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-12 16:34:09 UTC ]
Paper owned by Tribune has seen deep cuts to newsroomBaltimore-based group wants paper to become non-profitThe Baltimore Sun has just won the Pulitzer prize for local reporting, despite years of job cuts and as the coronavirus pandemic appears set to ravage the nation’s journalism sector even... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-05-12 10:00:08 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_180341" align="alignright" width="150"] Craig Perrault[/caption] Penske Media Corp. has promoted Craig Perrault to chief digital officer, a newly created role responsible for leading product strategy, business development, monetization and audience development across the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-05-07 15:03:14 UTC ]
The Constitution holds that the president shall, from time to time, conduct a spurt of interviews with mainstream news outlets before going back to Fox. Or something like that. We’re currently seeing one of those spurts. Last week, Trump gave an interview to Reuters in the Oval Office; on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-06 12:04:22 UTC ]