In our post on the Top 10 Works of Journalism of the decade, we posited that it was not a matter of if but when a non-traditional journalist took home a Pulitzer Prize.
This week Pro Publica, a non-profit newsroom, was honored for “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” its excellent investigative coverage of the struggles and heroism of a New Orleans’ hospital during Hurricane Katrina.
It’s easy to get hung up on the ‘death of publishing’ and to focus on what’s not happening or what could be done to ’save’ the industry.
A powerful reminder that the lifeblood of the news industry remains ground-breaking original reporting began coursing across the web yesterday when NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute released its “Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade, 2000-2009.”
The ten works (five newspaper series, four books, and a radio program) chosen by NYU from a group of 80 nominees represent ‘journalism that brilliantly met the challenges of the last decade.’ Quite a decade it was with reports on 9/11, the economic crisis, the Iraq war, Katrina and the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ rounding out the list.
13 April 2010 By Admin
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