Gotta say I'm proud of my hometown paper getting two Pulitzers for its ongoing and in-depth coverage of Katrina while the storm was flooding their headquarters and the homes of its staff. In October, the Columbia Review of Journalism had done a fabulous article on the Times-Picayune, noting that although it was a small paper it had one of the highest readership percentages of any local paper. This year, the Pulitzer committee had to waive its exclusion of on-line publishing, since the storm had left the region's papers with no possibility of printing. For three days, the Picayune published on-line, and within the week they were distributing hard copy.
Hurray!
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