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Purity, Integrity, Inspiration: Possible in 2009 News Online?

Sheila Shayon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Religion, Newspapers, Media, Online Media, News, Yellow Journalism, Journalism, Pulitzer Prize, Craig Newmark, Joseph Pulitzer, New York World, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Monitor, Media News
Sheila Shayon

In 2009, the Christian Science Monitor, a 100 year-old news organization, became the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website.

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The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Prizes, Literature Prizes, Howl, Writers, Man Booker, Books, Booker Prize, Fiction Prizes, Great Writers, Pulitzer Prize, Authors, Overlooked Writers, National Book Award, Women Writers, Lolita, Faulkner, The Handmaid's Tale, The Great Gatsby, Literature Awards, Literary Prizes, Books News

This year is a good one for female writers; most of the major literature prizes have gone to women, though whether this is a fluke, a new trend of hei...

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Women Sweep Literature Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature Prizes, Nobel Prize, Books, Orange Prize, Herta Muller, Hilary Mantel, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, Booker Prize, Fiction Prizes, Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize, LA Times, Housekeeping, Literature Awards, Literary Prizes, Books News

Is it an accident, the judging panels, a mini-trend or are the tides turning? With the sweep of this year's literary awards, all eyes are on the women...

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Planet Hollywood

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: End of World, Pandora, Earth, Aliens, The Day After Tomorrow, Prophecy, Mayan, Film, Movies, Pulitzer Prize, Novel, 2012, The Road, Animated, Planet 51, Apocalypse, Humans, Independence Day, James Cameron, 3d, Cannibals, Book, Roland Emmerich, Nuclear Winter, Cormac McCarthy, Avatar, Entertainment News
Avital Binshtock

A common theme runs through several films slated to hit theaters soon: the earth and its fate. "Take heed," the filmmakers seem to be saying, "or these will be our struggles."

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August: Osage Country: Southern Gothic Soap Sitcom Theatre

Brad Schreiber | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: August: Osage County, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, Theatre, Broadway, Theater, Tracy Letts, Pulitzer Prize, Entertainment News
Brad Schreiber

One wonders if there is some theatre ordinance that requires every Southern-themed play in this country to deal with incest. It is as if the fear of boring the audience has been taken to the zenith of tawdry complication.

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African-American Wendell Scott Should be in NASCAR's Hall of Fame

Steve Parker | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Cart, Juan Pablo Montoya, Grand National, Cars, Driving Hard, Tucker, 24 Hours of Daytona, Barack Obama, Sprint Cup, Pulitzer Prize, International Speedway Corporation, Jackie Robinson, Richard Pryor, Drive for Diversity, Bill France, Indy 500, Wendell Scott, Nascar, Greased Lightning, Anti-Semitism, Charlotte, Brian Donovan, Republican Party, African Americans, Business News
Steve Parker

Scott was the first African-American to compete regularly in and certainly the only one to win a NASCAR Grand National race, now known as Sprint Cup, the sport's top national series.

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Tell The Truth: You're a Real Storyteller

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Limerick, Books, Laermer.com, American Literature, Pulitzer Prize, Angela's Ashes, Frank Mccourt, Autobiograhies, Ireland, Prospective Customer Acquisition, Customers, Reading, Truth Commission, Media News
Richard Laermer

The success of Angela's Ashes taught us that the most popular stories that seem to resonate with readers and spur new and positive changes are often the true ones.

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The Ponzi-Pulitzer Scheme

Russ Baker | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Charles Ponzi, William McMasters, Boston Post, Pulitzer Prize, Media News
Russ Baker

It is a common practice among news organizations to make it look like scoops were the result of initiative on their own part when in fact the original tip may have come from an outsider.

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Octomom Twitters While Giving Birth to Global Pandemic

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Ipod, Newspapers, Politifact, Twitter, Hbo, Alexandra Berzon, Palin, Wal-Mart, Pulitzer Prize, Dick Cheney, Amazon.com, David Barstow, Itunes, Wanda Sykes, St. Petersburg Times, Kindle, Elizabeth Edwards, Miss California, John Edwards, New York Times, Octomom, American Idol, Las Vegas Sun, Media News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

It's important to create a viable financial model for online news delivery so journalists who research and report the real stories, stories that impact our lives, can continue their work and be compensated for it.

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The Coming Newspaper Renaissance: Instructions for Survival

Richard Laermer | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Laermer.com, Warren Buffett, Media News, Editorials, Newspaper Death Knoll, Newspaper Renaissance, Womens News Columnists, Death of Old Media, Gutenberg, Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize, Media News
Richard Laermer

From whence will the Newspaper Renaissance hail? It will start with papers moving away from their belly-buttons and instead examining their core businesses.

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Art Knows No Race

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Josephine Tonight, Lincoln Center, New York Times, August Wilson, Bartlett Sher, African Americans, Pulitzer Prize, Playwright, Time Out, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Entertainment News
Sherman Yellen

We are so blessed by our capacity to get beyond our own skins, our own sexuality, and our own fortunes, that all of us can enter into the world of the other and find that their world is our own world, after all.

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Financial Media Mourns Its Pulitzer

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Diana Henriques, Mother Jones, New York Financial Writers Association, Washington Post, Erin Arvedlund, Woodward and Bernstein, Wall Street Journal, Bernie Madoff, Pulitzer Prize, Andrea Chalupa, Media News
Andrea Chalupa

Will financial reporting ever have a Woodward and Bernstein, the two metro desk Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate Scandal?

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Extra! Extra! Newspapers Need an Overhaul, Not a "Rescue Plan"

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Citizen Journalism, New Media, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Senator Kerry, Breaking News, Pulitzer Prize, Media News
Richard M. Benjamin

Any viable rescue plan for newspapers must integrate new media in their operations from bottom up, rather than "tack on" new media as an afterthought to failing operations.

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Rocco Morabito, Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer, Dies At 88

AP | Posted 05.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Rocco Morabito Kiss of Life, Kiss of Life Photo, Rocco Morabito, Pulitzer Prize, Media News

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Photographer Rocco Morabito, whose shot of a utility worker saving the life a fellow lineman who had been shocked by a high...

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An Open Letter to George W. Bush

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Mccain Abramoff, George Bush, Pardons, John McCain, Jack Abramoff, American Indians, Criminal Activity, Crime, Native Americans, Mccain Jack Abramoff, McCain Abramoff, Pulitzer Prize, Abramoff, Presidential Pardons, Abramoff Scandal, Jack Abramoff Scandal, Bush Pardons, George Bush Pardons, Politics News
Gary S. Chafetz

After conducting an investigation, I concluded that Jack Abramoff did not defraud his tribal clients, did not bribe any elected or appointed federal officials, and did not corrupt the political process.

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The Perfect Test That the Chicago Tribune Failed

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 01.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Perfect Storm, Newspapers, Tribune Company, Bankruptcy, Editorial Writing, Liberals, Economy, Ann Marie Lipinski, Newspaper Advertising, Trivia, Journalism, Fourth Branch of Government, Pulitzer Prize, Creators Syndicate, Joanne Lipman, Conservatives, Chris Hedges, Political Debates, Rupert Murdoch, Los Angeles Times, Timothy McNulty, Chicago Tribune, Sam Zell, Investigative Reporting, Media News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

Over his long business career, Sam Zell has undoubtedly many times smirked at those who have reported failures whilst claiming, "It was not my fault." Now, Zell may well be smirking into the mirror.

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Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2008

Jeff Cohen | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Amy Chozick, Hardball, Jon Meacham, David Brooks, Obama Skinny, John F. Burns, Fox News, Chris Matthews, Pulitzer Prize, Media News
Jeff Cohen

Now in their seventeenth year, the P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize some of the nation's stinkiest media performances. And now, the P.U.-litzers Prizes for 2008.

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Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 01.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Tony Award, Meryl Streep, Doubt the Movie, Catholic Church, Pulitzer Prize, Amy Adams, Clergy Sex Abuse, John Patrick Shanley, Chicago, Daniel Mccormack, Brian F. O'byrne, Cherry Jones, St. Agatha, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Movies, Chicago News
Cathleen Falsani

The big-screen incarnation of Doubt may be even more powerful than the play, particularly given the eerie similarities it bears to a very real drama that has unfolded in the Archdiocese of Chicago.

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Congrats Web Writers: You Are Now Pulitzer Eligible!

Greg Mitchell | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Pulitzer Prize New Media, New Media, Internet Publications, Internet Journalism, Pulitzer, Online Journalism, Online, Pulitzer Prize, Media News
Greg Mitchell

The true sign of the times in the media industry: It was announced today that, for the first time, Web-only news outlets will be eligible for Pulitzer Prizes.

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The On-Going Debate

Murray Fromson | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Tribune Company, Journalism, Newspaper Industry, Pulitzer Prize, Sam Zell, Media News
Murray Fromson

The imminent closure of the Cox Newspapers' Washington bureau is one more piece of bad news for journalism. It followed word from the Newspaper Associ...

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Secret Memo From Bush: "Don't Throw Up Just Yet!"

Steven Denlinger | Posted 10.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Comet, Cheney, Titanic, Liberal, Mccain, The Way of the World, Bleach, Experience, Bush, Pulitzer Prize, Brits, Paulson, 2006 Election, Conservative Democrat, Ron Suskind, Republican Party, Character, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Steven Denlinger

I think it's very possible the Bush administration might be willing to make bad financial decisions in the short run just to keep the Republican Party in power.

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Will The Real Domestic Terrorist Please Stand Up?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Terrorism, George Bush, Patriot Act, White House, Animal Rights, War on Terror, Ron Suskind, George W. Bush, Tony Fratto, Firebombing, Ron Suskind New Book, Pulitzer Prize, Home News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Is it okay to firebomb villages, maim and kill innocent civilians and call these acts of domestic heroism because in the Oval Office the ideology they represent passes the smell test?

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Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer Prize

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.16.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bob Dylan, Tracy Letts, Pulitzer Prize, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Thanks to Bob Dylan, rock 'n' roll has finally broken through the Pulitzer wall. Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwrite...

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Stolen "Newsday" Pulitzer Medals Recovered

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Newsday, Stolen Pulitzers, Pulitzer Prize, Media News

Federal officials have recovered three Pulitzer Prize medals auctioned last month in California that may belong to Newsday, Suffolk County police said...

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