(Updated.) The Detroit Free Press shares one of journalism's highest honors with the smaller East Valley Tribune of Mesa, Ariz.
The Freep's Mike Thompson also was nominated as finalist, in the editorial cartooning category: Judges cited his "compelling collection of print and animated cartoons that blend the great traditions of the craft with new online possibilities."
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Monday, April 20, 2009
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Did The Arizona Republic submit an entry on this same subject?
ReplyDeleteNo. It's embarrassing. The AZ Rep has done next to nothing with Sheriff Joe. The Rep piece on the Sheriff was a love letter with no substantial reporting on alleged misdeeds in the sheriff's office.
ReplyDeleteNo. That would take balls and commitment, two things in short supply in the Rep Information Center. As an aside, Steven Colbert is interviewing Arpaio tonite on the Report. Wonder if he'll mention it?
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the Free Press. Will they be the first paper to win the Pulitzer and stop publishing in the same year?
ReplyDeleteAnd if it matters, the East Valley Tribune just went to 3 editions a week, Wed., Fri. & Sun. They dropped their Sat. edition. They also let go 13 people and this is AFTER the 140 people they let go in Jan. That paper is NOT that big and it is also slowly dying.
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ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see that instead of congratulating the dedicated and talented staff at the Detroit Free Press, which happens to be the Gannett paper this post is about, it has again turned in to a complaint fest about Gannett and what another Gannett paper didn't do.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Jim for the awesome following....... How sad.
The Republic struggles to win anything in the Arizona Press Club competition, much less even think about winning a Pulitzer.
ReplyDeleteAs a former Tribber, I commend them for the award. Sadly, I feel that it may have come a little too late for them to reap the benefits of such prestige.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been nice if somebody had told everyone at the Partnership about the award - I heard about it on the radio on my way home from work last night!
ReplyDelete6:59 A message went out at 8 last night. It's true nobody thought to send a message earlier but it was a crazy day. I'm sorry 6:59 that you feel the need to gripe about it rather than be thrilled for the place you obviously work for. Always looking at the cup half empty is a sad burden and I feel sorry for you.
ReplyDeleteHow bush league is the Republic newsroom management? (not a trick question)
ReplyDeleteSo bush league they didn't do a local story on the Trib's Pulitzer instead running AP copy. So bush league they buried it on A4.
This is a big deal on an important topic and they pretty much blow it off.
Let's get back on topic here. Congrats to all the good people working at Freep! To win a Pulitzer is an unbelievable achievement. To do so in the current newspaper working environment is even more awe inspiring. I hope ppl in Detroit pony up and spend money to help keep this publication afloat. It obviously is worth it!
ReplyDeleteAnd no mention that one of the guys with the Tribune that shared in the Pulitzer was laid off by the Trib!
ReplyDeleteWe laid off our Pulitzer Winner -
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Lets talk about being set up for failure for a moment. The AZ Republic retail department has gone through several technology changes over the past year. They have gone from using a Mosiac ad database system to an Adwatch. As they yanked Mosaic out from under them, they told the artists to crosstrain and speed up. But, they never told them what types of common mistakes someone could make while uploading ads to go to press when they were inbetween the two systems...this caused alot of ads to go to press wrong..because the inbetween system had lots of ways to send the wrong ad. The artist had no idea. The artist was told to speed up while going into unknown systems. Management never had a meeting about the best way to do this or that at that time... For the last year AZ Republic retail has been lining up people to be the next to "walk the plank." They accused one artist of making mistakes that really qualified as first time "stumbles" that did not go to press. The artist did not even know they were making the mistakes. Nobody told the artist. Whatz up with that? Can you say set up?
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