If you had to pick a single story that has shaped our recent times, it would be the financial crisis and the economic collapse that was its result. Once-august brokerages and banks have shuttered, unemployment and foreclosure rates are sky high, and debt-ridden states and nation states threaten further disruption.
This year, no Pulitzer winner explored these topics. And last year it was the same.
While the weekly Puget Sound Business Journal was a finalist yesterday for their coverage of the dissolution of Washington Mutual, and last year The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times were finalists for meltdown coverage, the board hasn’t given a clean win to any outlet for work on the defining issue of the last two years.
Has there been any reporting on these topics that you feel was unjustly passed over? Even if not, who would win your award for the best of economic crisis reporting?
Econ blogs: Simon Johnson & James Kwak and Dean Baker.
#1 Posted by MB, CJR on Wed 14 Apr 2010 at 11:34 AM
This is a good way to talk about the crisis... I believe that you made a good point
#2 Posted by Tony, CJR on Wed 14 Apr 2010 at 11:58 AM
McClatchy's story on Goldman Sachs was a finalist in the national reporting category...
#3 Posted by CW, CJR on Thu 15 Apr 2010 at 10:45 AM
The George Polk Awards -- www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/press/2009.html -- honored four Bloomberg News reporters (including the late Mark Pittman) for their relentless (and successful) pursuit of transparency in the government's intervention.
#4 Posted by Edward Hershey, CJR on Tue 20 Apr 2010 at 10:36 AM