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April 17, 2007

The 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories and photos

Update: The Pulitzer Prize 2007 site does all of what's below and more, including links to the editorial cartoons Walt Handelsman actually won for, but no Ornette Coleman mp3s. Oh, well...

Yet later: NPR has some cuts from Coleman's winning CD, Sound Grammar.

National Reporting: Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe - Boston.com

Richly deserving of the award, Charlie Savage revealed the presidential signing statements that President Bush has attached to more than 750 laws, "asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution."

The series is at the link above.

Feature Writing: Andrea Elliott, New York Times, for the series, Muslims in America.

Public Service: Wall Street Journal, Perfect Payday: CEOs Reap Millions by Landing Stock Options When They Are Most Valuable

International Reporting: Wall Street Journal, China's Naked Capitalism.

Breaking News/ Photography: Oded Balilty, Associated Press. From AP, AP's Oded Balilty wins Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography:

Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty has won The Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his picture of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces in the West Bank.

...Balilty's photo shows a Jewish settler struggling with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, on Feb. 1, 2006. Thousands of troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing Jewish settlers holed up behind barbed wire and on rooftops in this illegal West Bank settlement outpost that Wednesday, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the demolition of nine homes at the site.

Breaking news: The Oregonian won for its coverage of the The Kim Family Saga. James Kim, 35, a senior editor at CNET, died of exposure and hypothermia as he set off alone to find help for his snowbound wife and children in the Oregon wilderness.

Investigative Reporting: Brett J. Blackledge, "for his 14-month investigation of Alabama's two-year college system, in which he reported corruption, cronyism and nepotism on a wide scale." That summary tops links to some of his winning stories are at the Birmingham News.

Editorial Cartoonist: Walt Handelsman, Newsday.

Later: That caught my eye among recent cartoons. These are the ones he actually won for, at the Pulitzer site.

Handelsman on How Animation Helped Him Win the Pulitzer for Cartooning by Dave Astor at Editor & Publisher.

Local reporting: Debbie Cenziper, Miami Herald:

Cenziper led a reporting team that did more than 30 articles in the 2006 series House of Lies, which revealed developers took millions of dollars in taxpayer money to build affordable housing for the poor, but failed to deliver, leaving thousands without their promised homes. The series led to massive changes in the county housing agency, which had lost $12 million to developers who didn't keep their promises to build homes. Three developers have been arrested...

Here's House of Lies.

Criticism: Jonathan Gold of L.A. Weekly: The first time a food critic has ever won a Pulitzer Prize includes some of his reviews.

Here's how one -- headlined The Devil's Own Steak House: The Lodge -- begins,

Do I love The Lodge for its double-fisted Tanqueray martinis or for the thick-cut pepper bacon put out like peanuts at the bar? For the big chunks of blue cheese in the house chopped salad or for the onion rings as golden as the bangles on a Brahmin woman’s arm? For the dripping-rare New York steak or for the bone-in rib-eye as big as some models of compact car? For the sommelier, Caitlin Stansbury, who seems to purr like a cat when you order her favorite Madiran or Spanish Syrah on the wine list? When this dining room was Tiny Naylor’s, my mom used to take us here for patty melts when she didn’t feel flush enough to spring for the onion rings across the street at Ollie Hammond’s. When it was reborn as an upscale coffee shop, at least one of the waitresses used to slip punk-rock dudes warm beer in teacups after the bars closed. And now that it has been reinvented as a wood-paneled post-Googie ski lodge, I find it pretty hard to get a reservation. It must have something to do with the bacon.

Explanatory journalism: Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times, for Altered Oceans: A five part series on the crisis in the seas

Feature Photography: "Sacramento Bee photographer Renée C. Byer won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography today for her photographs in "A Mother's Journey," a series by writer Cynthia Hubert and Byer that appeared in The Bee last summer.

"Byer, 48, chronicled the dying days of 11-year-old Derek Madsen, who was battling cancer, and the anguish of his mother, Cyndie French, as she fought to save him." The Sacramento Bee celebrates and links the story and photos: Read "A Mother's Journey" / View a gallery of the award-winning photos

Editorial: Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Consitution. Ten columns.

Others: 2007 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music winners are detailed and well-linked by the Times.

Notable: The Music prize went to alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman for 'Sound Grammar.' Clips at this Amazon link.

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