Fact Check: Florida Court Did NOT Rule That New York Times And Washington Post Have To Return Their 2018 Pulitzers, As Of May 28, 2025

Did a Florida court rule that two newsrooms have to be stripped of their Pulitzer Prizes for covering the role of Russia in the 2016 election campaign? No, that's not true: The court's ruling was procedural. The judge only allowed...

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The late Chuck Stone, Tuskegee Airman, pioneering Black editor and columnist, and a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists, was awarded a special citation from the Pulitzers on Monday. https://bit.ly/4kbCVXP #ChuckStone #NABJ #Pulitzers
Chuck Stone, an NABJ founder and late longtime columnist, receives special citation from the Pulitzers NABJ Black News & Views

The Pulitzers gave a special citation on Monday to the late Chuck Stone, a pioneering columnist in Philadelphia, and a founder and first president of the National Association of Black Journalists. The announcement was part of the reveal of the list of 2025 winners of the Pulitzer Prizes. In this Feb. 15, 1984, file photo,

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Why Your Book Won't Win a Pulitzer No Matter How Good Your Writing Is: Even a Simon & Schuster editor has predicted a novel from rival Penguin Random House will win the next one.

What's going on? Are the Pulitzers rigged? At @medium, I respond from my perspective as the former awards vp of another major book prize, the National Book Critics Circle Awards:

#Books #Writing #Fiction #Culture #Pulitzers

https://medium.com/lit-life/why-your-book-wont-win-a-pulitzer-no-matter-good-it-is-0de03f34f8c2?sk=b2660ad8a64f0f16bc089e37f201f520

Why Your Book Won’t Win A Pulitzer No Matter Good It Is

As a book critic and former awards judge, I’ve seen the kind of outrage that might make you think so, including the public brawls that erupted when the Pulitzer Board gave no fiction prize in 2012…

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Honestly, Trust was such a dull book I can't even... not remotely surprising or puzzling, resembling so many easily forgettable books of the genre... characters uninteresting, style nil, if that's fiction just go bury me in the backyard now.
Sorry. Annual Pulitzer Rant.

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