Local award winners

By adamg on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 9:36pm

Globe arts critic Mark Feeney won a Pulitzer for criticism, for ten essays.

Junot Diaz, a creative writing instructor at MIT, won the Pulitzer for fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Channel 7 won two Murrow awards and an Associated Press award for its reporting on the autopsy results of the two dead Tai Ho firefighters (you may recall how every media outlet in town but Channel 7 broke the news, because they had the story first and the firefighters union got an injunction, which, of course, made news itself).

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Any mention of who won News

By Anonymous on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 12:58am.

Any mention of who won News Station of the Year?

Come On,

By MattL on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 10:05am.

you're gonna nail the Globe for uneven coverage, but when they win a Pulitzer you give them one line?

Good point

By adamg on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 10:07am.

You're right; I should've written more. It's the top honors for print journalism and deserving of more praise than one line.

For all that I carp about the Globe (and, yes, I do), it still has some excellent writers. This is confirmation of that.

'Surprising but deserved'

By adamg on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 10:23am.

Dan Kennedy writes:

... Feeney stands for low-key substance, and it's nice to see that the Pulitzer judges recognized that. It's also encouraging that the Globe has kept its Pulitzer string alive while it goes through another wave of downsizing. Editor Marty Baron is groping toward how to define excellence in a very different era. Greats arts coverage is one answer to that challenge.

The Globe's Beth Daley, who was a finalist, also deserves credit for explaining the effects of global warming in human terms. ...