Staff / TruthdigFeb 22, 2010
The St Petersburg Times has done some in-depth reporting about the Church of Scientology that hasn't always cast the organization in the best light, let's say The Times' top brass must've known what they were getting into in opening that particular Pandora's box, though, as the CoS (continued). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 22, 2010
To answer our own headline question: It remains to be seen whether this year's Pulitzer Prize committee members think so, but the editors at the National Enquirer apparently believe that their tabloid's coverage of John Edwards' extramarital affair has a shot at journalistic glory. They've thrown their reports on the former Democratic presidential candidate's liaison in for official consideration among the submissions for 2009. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigMay 5, 2009
We have gone through other periods when great newspapers succumbed to new economic realities. Most American cities once had three, four or more competing dailies; now, most are down to just one. But those earlier rounds of attrition were exercises in survival of the fittest. The difference now is that newspapers are in trouble no matter how fit they are. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigApr 21, 2009
This was a good year for journalists to catch a politician in flagrante delicto, or anything approaching such a compromised position, judging by a couple of this year's picks for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 9, 2008
This is spooky: A group of journalism students from the City University of New York filed a Freedom of Information request and discovered that the FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam for more than two decades. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 1, 2008
What a time for the world to lose Studs Terkel. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, activist and radio and television star died Friday in his adopted hometown of Chicago. Terkel was 96. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 8, 2008
Truthdig tips its hat this week to Edwin O. Guthman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, World War II veteran, professor and former press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy. Guthman, who died Aug. 31, was a true class act, a mentor to many and, as the Los Angeles Times noted, a top-notch editor who earned the No. 3 spot on President Richard Nixon's enemies list for what the Times called his "aggressive pursuit of Watergate stories." Updated Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 11, 2007
News of the loss of one of America's most unique voices, Norman Mailer, rippled through the literary community Saturday after Mailer's biographer announced that the author of "The Armies of the Night" and "The Naked and the Dead" had expired at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 18, 2006
Check out Truthdig's collection of cartoons by Mike Luckovich, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 18, 2006
Two Gulf Coast newspapers took home the big award for their hurricane reportage; Risen and Lichtblau of the N.Y. Times won for their stories on Bush's eavesdropping; and Dana Priest of the Washington Post earned a Pulitzer for reporting on secret CIA prisons. Full list of winners. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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