{ "id": "1997-may-surfing-for-winners", "slug": "1997-may-surfing-for-winners", "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1997-may-surfing-for-winners.html", "year": 1997, "month": "May", "monthNum": 5, "headline": "Surfing for winners", "kicker": "On the Internet", "author_name": "Nora Paul", "author_title": "", "affiliation": "The Poynter Institute", "summary": "A guide to accessing Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism stories and information about award recipients from major news organizations including The Times-Picayune, Newsday, Seattle Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Wall Street Journal.", "keywords": [ "Pulitzer", "awards", "journalism" ], "topics": [ "Journalism & Newsroom" ], "technologies": [ "World Wide Web", "Internet" ], "full_text": "The season of journalism awards and prizes are upon us.\n\nThe Pulitzers were just announced, so were the IRE award winners. In this column we'll look at some sites that can lead you to where to read the prize-winning stories, where you can find out more about journalism prizes and where you can learn about the stories behind the stories.\n\nThe Pulitzer Prize site: http://www.pulitzer.org/\n\nGet the listing of current winners and, for the journalism prizes in 1995-96, the winners, their bios, their award-winning stories and information on the judging panels and the runner-ups.\n\nThe listings for winners prior to 1995 are under construction. The stories from this year's winners will be available in June.\n\nPulitzer Winners\n\nThe Times-Picayune http://www.neworleans.net PUBLIC SERVICE\n\nSeries analyzing the conditions that threaten the world's supply of fish.\n\nRead all about the win: http://www.neworleans.net/prizepages/prizeindex.html\n\nThis article, covering the wins (Public Service and Editorial Cartooning) contain links to the prize-winning stories and samples of the winning editorial cartoons.\n\nNewsday http://www.newsday.com SPOT NEWS REPORTING\n\nStaff of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y., coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and its aftermath.\n\nRead all about the win:\n\nhttp://www.newsday.com/about/pulitzer.htm\n\nThis page in the \"About Newsday\" area provides links to the 1996 Pulitzer winning coverage and lists of previous Newsday prize winners.\n\nSeattle Times http://www.seattletimes.com\n\nINVESTIGATIVE REPORTING and BEAT REPORTING\n\nInvestigative: Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson and Alex Tizon of The Seattle Times investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms.\n\nBeat: Byron Acohido of The Seattle Times coverage of the aerospace industry, notably an exhaustive investigation of rudder control problems on the Boeing 737, which contributed to new FAA requirements for major improvements.\n\nRead the stories:\n\nhttp://www.seattletimes.com/todaysnews/special.html\n\nThe texts of \"Safety at Issue: the 737,\" and \"Tribal Housing: From Deregulation to Disgrace\" are presented here.\n\nPhiladelphia Inquirer http://www.phillynews.com EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM\n\nMichael Vitez, Ron Cortes and April Saul of The Philadelphia Inquirer series on the choices that confronted critically-ill patients who sought to die with dignity.\n\nRead the stories:\n\nhttp://www.phillynews.com/packages/end_of_life/\n\nSeeking a Good Death series text is available here. The package of stories from the series, related stories from the archive and list of links to Internet resources is a great example of compiling a full array of coverage on a topic on the web.\n\nWall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com NATIONAL REPORTING\n\nStaff of The Wall Street Journal coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease.\n\nNew York Times http://www.nyt.com INTERNATIONAL REPORTING\n\nJohn F. Burns of The New York Times coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban.\n\nI guess they are too used to winning prizes to make a big deal, so I couldn't find anything about this Pulitzer win. But do a search on \"Taliban\" and you'll get Burns' news stories (don't be thrown off by the dates on the list that is retrieved from the search - even though it says April 1997, the stories are from last October).\n\nBaltimore Sun\nhttp://www.sunspot.net FEATURE WRITING\n\nThe site includes Lisa Pollak's compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.\n\nOther journalism awards:\n\nSure, the Pulitzer is journalism's Oscars, but there are a lot of other awards given by journalism associations. Here are links to the associations' pages with information about awards and winners:\n\nASNE - American Society of Newspaper Editors Writing Awards\nhttp://www.asne.org/kiosk/news/wabrel.htm\nIncludes 1997 winners with links to a page with their photo on it.\n\nAPME - Associated Press Managing Editors Awards\nhttp://www.apme.com/\nAwards for public service, FOI, Meritorious Service and the Associated Press awards are listed here with details about the award and listing of winners and finalists. (There is no link to the awards page from the home page, so click to any other page, go to the bottom and link to the APME Awards page.)\n\nCommittee to Protect Journalists http://www.cpj.org/attacks96/frontmatter/ipfa.html\n1996 Press Freedom Awards winners page with links to lengthy bios of the winners.\n\nEducation Writers Association http://www.ewa.org/\nClick on the \"Contest\" link in the left column to get to a news release about the 1996 winners, some with links to the stories that won the prize.\n\nInternational Women's Media Foundation http://www.iwmf.org/courage.htm \"Courage in Journalism\" Awards\n\nIRE - Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards\nhttp://www.ire.org/resources/contest/\nLinks to the 1996 award winners. Some of the winners' entries are linked to the text of their stories.\n\nNABJ - National Association of Black Journalists Awards http://www.nabj.org/CONVENTION/conv0.html Click on the Awards item in the left column to get a page about the categories of awards given by NABJ.\n\nNAHJ - National Association of Hispanic Journalists Contest http://www.nahj.org/noticias/contj97.htm Information about the award, to be presented at the national convention. For a listing of last year's winners: http://www.nahj.org/noticias/detalle.htm#jaward\n\nNGLJA - National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association Awards\nhttp://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/nlgja/awards.html Description of the award and links to listing of last year's winners.\n\nRTNDA - Radio and Television News Directors Association http://www.rtnda.org/rtnda/ Scroll down the options to Awards and click to releases about past and current winners.\n\nSPJ - Society of Professional Journalists Awards\nhttp://www.spj.org/awdfell/awards.htm Although the page is still under construction, it does have a listing of the awards they give and a link to last year's winners. And now a plug for the too often unsung support group behind the great journalism.\n\nGet more tips from Nora Paul by going to the Poynter website at poynter.org. The site includes a list of upcoming seminars including \"Reporting with the Internet\" and also includes some CAR-related handouts.\n\nNews Research http://sunsite.unc.edu/journalism/awnwslib.html\n\nThis site links you to essays by some of the top researchers in the country and how they conducted the, often, award-winning research.\n\nCongratulations to all the winners and runner-ups. 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