Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review examines the reasons why The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News didn’t win Pulitzer Prizes for their work in covering the Wall Street crisis of the past three years.
“The full series is here: The more you learn, the worse it gets.
“I wonder if the Pulitzer jurors and board feel as I do, that we’re still in about the third inning of this profound and historic event and its aftermath. The virtuosity of Eisinger and Bernstein’s work aside — and it was virtuous indeed, as we said as the series unfolded — perhaps the best thing about it was that they decided to keep after the story after others had foolishly moved on. I always thought that was nuts, especially if you have the words ‘Wall Street’ in your name.
“I’m sure Bloomberg News, which has long sought a Pulitzer, is disappointed it, too, didn’t win. But the Bloomberg entries that made it among the finalists, as good as they were, also didn’t deal with the crisis, the business story, the story, really, of our time.”
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