74 days ago by John Temple

Cheryl Diaz Meyer and David Leeson won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2004 for their coverage of the Iraq war for the Dallas Morning News. Today, Diaz Meyer no longer works at the paper. Neither does Leeson. And it's questionable whether the paper would assign photojournalists t ...

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97 days ago by John Temple

If you want to know what the decline in the number of journalists in newspaper newsrooms means, it's worth listening to Joe Demma. Demma's been around and see and done a lot. He's been involved in three Pulitzer-winning efforts. Now, as he says in the following interview, he's grateful that he's not ...

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104 days ago by John Temple

Glenn Frankel brings a voice of authority and restraint to the discussion of what society, journalism and journalists are losing as a result of the shrinking of newspaper newsrooms. What strikes me about his interview and the previous interview with Tamara Jones, another former Washington Post repor ...

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105 days ago by John Temple

Today I interview Tamara Jones, a wonderful writer who left The Washington Post right after one of her stories was honored as part of an entry on the Virginia Tech shootings that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008. In preparing many of these interviews for publication, I find ...

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110 days ago by John Temple

How best to get at the cost for society, for journalism and for journalists of the loss of thousands of jobs at American newspapers? This is the sixth in a series that tries to do it by asking journalists who have shown themselves capable of producing work of the highest caliber - winners of the Pul ...

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118 days ago by John Temple

What does it tell us that a passionate voice like Jerry Kammer’s is no longer supported by a newspaper? In 2006, two Pulitzers were awarded for National Reporting. The New York Times won one, and the other was won by The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service, “with notable work by Marcus S ...

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141 days ago by Gregg Morris

I’ve: — Heard her explanation on TV and reviewed published news stories, essentially that her resignation is in the best interest of Alaskans whom she loves. — Reviewed some jokes. — Listened to some political pundits (specific names don’t really matter at this point though it must be said that they ...

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144 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

Just picked up Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue (Columbia University Press, 368 pp., $29.50), the new book of poetry criticism by William Logan, who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Undiscovered Country. I’d read and enjoyed many of the pieces in Our Savage Art when they a ...

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172 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

A genteel Southern family stumbles after moving from one Tennessee city to another A Summons to Memphis. By Peter Taylor. Vintage 224 pp., $14.95. By Janice Harayda Northerners tend to think of the South as more unified than it is. The former Confederate states may have similarities that reflect the ...

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177 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

A main character’s name often gives you the first clue to what a novel is “about,” especially when it’s also the title of the book. A good example turns up in Olive Kitteridge, the collection of linked short stories that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A just-picked olive is as bitter — and ...

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