"Editor and Publisher" has the leaked Pultizer list. Looks like the "LA Times" leads the pack.
The Complete Pulitzer Finalist List?
By Joe Strupp
Published: March 07, 2004 11:30 PM EST
NEW YORK Just days after the Pulitzer Prize juries completed their annual choice of finalists for journalism's biggest awards, the annual leaking of purported finalist lists is naturally occurring. E&P has obtained what we feel is the first credible list that includes all 14 journalism category nominees.
According to the list, obtained from sources that provided E&P with highly accurate tallies for the previous two Pulitzer competitions, the Los Angeles Times leads the pack with nine finalists, while The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have four each, The New York Times has three, and The Boston Globe and Miami Herald two apiece.
Other nominees on the list include those from The Sun in Baltimore; the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News; The Blade in Toledo, Ohio; The Dallas Morning News; The Philadelphia Inquirer; the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; and The Providence (R.I.) Journal; among others.
The nine finalists would be a tremendous triumph for the Los Angeles Times, especially when compared to three for The New York Times.
Much of this unofficial list is identical to one The Washingtonian magazine cited on its Web site Friday, but our list includes four additional categories not noted by that publication. These include nominees for commentary, explanatory journalism, editorial cartoons, and breaking news photography.
Even if our list is completely accurate, further changes could be made. Under Pulitzer rules, the juries put forth three nominees in each of the 14 journalism categories. The Pulitzer Board then considers the nominees and chooses winners in each grouping. The board has the power to move any finalist from one category to another, or even move an entry up that was not nominated by the juries to finalist or winner status. The winners will be announced April 5.
Each juror is directed not to reveal the finalists to anyone, with Pulitzer officials asking that each sign an agreement not to leak the nominees. But every year, alleged lists circulate freely.
The nominees, according to this list, are:
COMMENTARY
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Cynthia Tucker
The New York Times -- Nicholas Kristof
The Miami Herald -- Leonard Pitts
CRITICISM
Los Angeles Times -- Nicolai Ouroussoff
The Philadelphia Inquirer -- Inga Saffron
Los Angeles Times -- Dan Neil
CARTOONS
Universal Press Syndicate -- Garry Trudeau
Minneapolis Star Tribune -- Steve Sack
The Journal News, Westchester, N.Y. -- Matt Davies
LOCAL BREAKING NEWS
The Miami Herald -- Columbia shuttle tragedy
Los Angeles Times -- brush fires
Newsday, Melville, N.Y. -- New York City blackout
EDITORIAL
Los Angeles Times -- Andrew Malcolm
Los Angeles Times -- Bill Stall
The New York Times -- Andres Martinez
PUBLIC SERVICE
The Seattle Times -- "Coaches Who Prey"
Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal -- "Justice Denied"
The Providence Journal -- "Rhode Island Nightclub Fire"
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
The Wall Street Journal -- anuerysm
Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif. -- hospital costs
Baltimore Sun -- baby who died
NATIONAL REPORTING
Los Angeles Times
Copley News Service
The Wall Street Journal
BEAT REPORTING
The Wall Street Journal -- Daniel Golden, white affirmative action
The Washington Post -- Barton Gellman, investigating weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
The Boston Globe -- Ellen Barry, mental health
INVESTIGATIVE
The Washington Post -- Nature Conservancy
The (Toledo) Blade -- Vietnam atrocities
The New York Times -- workplace safety
FEATURES
Los Angeles Times -- Robert Hotz, the Challenger investigation
The Washington Post -- Ann Hull and Tamara Jones, inside Walter Reed
The Boston Globe -- Patricia Wen, Barbara's Story
INTERNATIONAL
The Wall Street Journal -- Roger Thurow, Third World Hunger
The Washington Post -- Anthony Shadid, Iraq
Los Angeles Times -- David Zucchino, Iraq
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOS
Associated Press -- Iraq
The Dallas Morning News -- Iraq
Getty Images -- Liberia
FEATURE PHOTOS
Los Angeles Times -- Liberia
San Jose Mercury News -- recall election
Reuters -- medic with child |
