USA TODAY NETWORK Celebrates Three Pulitzer Wins
April 16 2018 - 6:22PM
Business Wire
The staffs of The Arizona Republic and USA
TODAY NETWORK, staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and writer Andie
Dominick of The Des Moines Register win Pulitzer Prizes
The USA TODAY NETWORK, part of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), is
celebrating three 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in the categories of
explanatory journalism, local reporting and editorial writing. The
Arizona Republic | USA TODAY NETWORK won for explanatory reporting
for its project “The Wall: Unknown Stories, Unintended
Consequences,” The Cincinnati Enquirer staff won for local
reporting with “Seven Days of Heroin,” and The Des Moines
Register’s Andie Dominick won for editorial writing.
“The Wall” was a landmark multi-platform project that examined
President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall on the
U.S.-Mexico border. The explanatory report, led by then Arizona
Republic’s vice president of news and editor Nicole Carroll,
recently named editor in chief of USA TODAY, provides an in-depth
look at the border through immersive technology, including aerial
and 360-degree video, virtual reality, bots, drones, documentaries,
photos, podcasts, and LiDAR data. The report was published at a
crucial time when Congress was considering funding for a border
wall and continues to inform policy discussions.
The Pulitzer Prize board named “The Wall” a winner “for vivid
and timely reporting that masterfully combined text, video,
podcasts and virtual reality to examine, from multiple
perspectives, the difficulties and unintended consequences of
fulfilling President Trump's pledge to construct a wall along the
U.S. border with Mexico.”
“Seven Days of Heroin: This is What an Epidemic Looks Like,”
shines a spotlight on Cincinnati’s opioid and heroin crisis. Over
the course of one week, 60 journalists investigated what has become
the region’s greatest health crisis, during which they reported 180
overdoses and 18 deaths.
The board awarded The Cincinnati Enquirer “for a riveting and
insightful narrative and video documenting seven days of greater
Cincinnati's heroin epidemic, revealing how the deadly addiction
has ravaged families and communities.”
The Des Moines Register’s Andie Dominick was named 2018 Pulitzer
Prize winner for editorial writing about issues in Iowa related to
health care, such as the governor’s privatization of Medicaid,
state lawmakers’ efforts to impede fetal tissue research, and how
the Trump administration’s handling of the Affordable Care Act
jeopardizes access to coverage.
The judges praised Andie Dominick “for examining in a clear,
indignant voice, free of cliché or sentimentality, the damaging
consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s
administration of Medicaid.”
In addition, two others earned honors as Pulitzer Prize
finalists. They are:
Brett Murphy of USA TODAY NETWORK, for “Rigged: Forced in Debt.
Worked Past Exhaustion. Left with Nothing,” in the National
Reporting category. This yearlong investigation found that
port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past
decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on
debt they could not afford.
Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press, for Editorial
Cartooning. Mike’s work offers commentary on politics, news,
current events and pop culture. The Pulitzer judges said Mike
created “a provocative, nuanced and impactful portfolio of
editorial cartoons that took on a variety of social issues,
including, health care, police brutality, sexual harassment and
education, through traditional panels and digital animation.”
“The USA TODAY NETWORK’s tremendous accomplishment of winning
three Pulitzer Prizes and being recognized as finalists in two
other categories underscores the value of the journalism put forth
by our newsrooms across the country,” said Robert J. Dickey,
president and CEO, Gannett. “Our journalists earned such
prestigious honors because of the impact that their hard work had
from the local to national level, and that result is the goal media
organizations strive to achieve every day. Today is a cause for
celebration.”
“We are so proud of the work of the USA TODAY NETWORK’s
journalists and honored by the Pulitzer Board’s recognition of
their incredible feats of journalism in 2017,” said Maribel Perez
Wadsworth, president, USA TODAY NETWORK and publisher, USA TODAY.
“To have five Network teams be recognized by the Pulitzer
Prize board is a reflection of the ambition, impact and
excellence of our journalism. Most importantly, the work cited
brought illumination to complex and troubling issues, helped to
right wrongs, humanized some of the greatest challenges faced by
our nation and served as a catalyst for vital dialogue.”
About USA TODAY NETWORK
USA TODAY NETWORK, part of Gannett Co, Inc. (NYSE: GCI), is the
largest local-to-national media organization in the country,
powered by our award-winning newsrooms and marketing solutions
business. With deep roots in local communities spanning the U.S.
with more than 100 brands, plus USA TODAY, we engage more than 110
million people every month through a diverse portfolio of
multi-platform content offerings and experiences. For more
information, visit www.gannett.com.
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