I cannot explain how important it is that the Pulitzer Prize Committee awarded its Special Citation to Darnella Frazier for the video she took of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the murderer Derek Chauvin. https://t.co/y0s1PXfJSd
Pretty notable that two freelancers won @PulitzerPrizes this year for feature writing, but one of them was for a magazine that was shut down. Freelancing is often incredibly difficult to financially manage. I hope the award gives them the recognition and breathing room they need.
I stopped freelance writing and reporting about crime, media, and entertainment because I couldn't figure out how to make the money work while juggling pitching and bookkeeping. It's really tough for a lot of people. I am in awe of the winners for their perseverance and talent.
You definitely need to have or quickly get the business skills to make it work. A lot of people who try and think of it as a form of being a worker won't make it.
Breaking News: The New York Times won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for public service for its Covid coverage. BuzzFeed News won its first, for reports on China's internment of Uyghurs. https://t.co/279h8Z7pK1
BuzzFeed News just won its first-ever Pulitzer Prize for our groundbreaking investigation exposing China’s vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Xinjiang camps. https://t.co/MnjzDFzSME
Today, my team at the @nytimes won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Now that I've stopped crying (for the time being), I want to say a bit about how apt that categorization is. (1/) pic.twitter.com/DSmQkxrFRF
New York Times wins Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of COVID-19. AP awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for photography. https://t.co/hrdpPNIzmH
Wesley Morris, a critic at large for The New York Times, won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, making him the first person to win the category twice. His work examined the George Floyd protests, Black artists, life under quarantine and pop culture. https://t.co/O14RAI38kj
"In Rebecca Corbett's case, kept calling us to make every single sentence stronger." -- @abbygoodnough's beautiful, generous speech accepting the @PulitzerPrizes for Public Service
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by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 7:06pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 7:09pm
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by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 7:26pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 7:42pm
everybody loves Abby, it's like the self-sacrificing hardest worker who helps eveeyone else but never gets a prize finally got the prize:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 11:07pm