South Florida Sun Sentinel Awarded 2019 Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service Category
17 April 2019 - 1:01AM
Tribune Publishing Company (NASDAQ:TPCO) properties were recognized
Monday by the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Board as the South Florida Sun
Sentinel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service
category, and the Capital Gazette of Annapolis, Maryland, received
a Special Citation.
Each organization was recognized for its coverage of a mass
shooting: The Sun Sentinel for the events at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and the Capital Gazette
for the violence that occurred inside its own newsroom.
In addition, the organizations were Pulitzer finalists in two
other categories: The Sun Sentinel for Breaking News and the
Capital Gazette in Editorial Writing.
This is the Sun Sentinel’s second Pulitzer (they previously won
in 2013) and the 61st Pulitzer for Tribune Publishing.
“We are humbled to receive these awards as we remember those,
including our colleagues, killed in the attacks,” said Timothy P.
Knight, Tribune Publishing CEO and President. “Our journalists
worked, through their own grief, to tell vital stories about what
happened in Parkland and Annapolis. Across our company, we will
continue to provide readers with the journalism they need to make
the decisions that improve their lives.”
In its announcement, the Pulitzer Committee praised the Sun
Sentinel for “exposing failings by school and law enforcement
officials before and after the deadly shooting rampage.” Following
that coverage, parents’ groups and other organizations forced
wholesale changes in the local sheriff’s office and amendments to
Florida’s gun laws.
“Our local journalism includes stories that break your heart,
but also provides news of resilience and progress that reflect the
best of our community,” said Julie Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Sun
Sentinel. “This announcement is a tribute to those cited by the
Pulitzer Committee and to everyone in our newsroom.”
In its citation to the Capital Gazette, the Pulitzer Committee
highlighted the newsroom’s “courageous response to the largest
killing of journalists in U.S. history.” The Committee also
bequeathed to the newsroom’s staff a $100,000 prize to be used “to
further the newspaper’s journalistic mission.”
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