ProPublica has chosen an editor to build its new Chicago operation—Louise Kiernan
Tag: Pulitzer Prizes
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Paul Salopek pauses his global trek to reflect on politics back home
The former Chicago Tribune correspondent is walking out of Africa, through Asia, and down through the Americas, tracing humanity’s own first journey.
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Cubs fan Bill McClellan bargains with higher power
On behalf of a friend, Saint Louis’s biggest Cubs fan is willing to deal.
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How press photographers got Pulitzer-winning pictures
Great pictures photographers got by doing what photographers do
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Undercover reporting—not as dead as you’ve heard
Brooke Kroeger’s new book defends undercover journalism
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To Investigate and Advocate
The Better Government Association was in on some of the most exciting investigative reporting of yore. But director Andy Shaw says just exposing wrongdoing is no longer enough.
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Kathleen Parker and the Pulitzer
Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker wins a Pulitzer for columns that weren’t.
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Jack Higgins
Over the years I have been frequently astonished by the work of Sun-Times editorial cartoonist Jack Higgins. In February 2001 I wrote, “As an ultimate expression of the rabidly right-wing editorial fervor of today’s Sun-Times, and of the rabidly right-wing cartoons Higgins has taken to drawing, the cartoon becomes even more infuriating.” It was a […]