The Kicker

When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, there was a curious gap: No award was given for editorials. There were, of course, plenty of entrants. And there were three finalists. But in the end, the prize board didn’t name a winner. Portfolio’s Jeff Bercovici had the clever idea to call up the three finalists […]

A headline like that would seem to be very good news for The Associated Press, which has been working to free Bilal Hussein, the wire’s Pulitzer prize-winning Iraqi photographer, from U.S. custody for over two years. The Army has variously alleged that Hussein was in possession of weapons and bomb parts, only to walk back […]

Oh, the comma-dy. Here, what has to be one of The New York Times’s best corrections of the of the year, courtesy of Andrew Sullivan: An article in some editions on Monday about a New York City Transit employee’s deft use of the semicolon in a public service placard was less deft in its punctuation […]

Let’s say you’re an illustrious newspaper, and your rival has just won a landslide of Pulitzers (six, to be exact, the second most any newspaper has won in a year—ever). Let’s say you’ve also had some (but more modest) Pulitzer success: you’ve rung in at a more-than-respectable two. And let’s say you publish a story […]

This piece from today’s New York Times Science section has “Most E-Mailed” written all over it. Imagine, your daily bread turns out to be both life-sustaining and an opportunistic killer…that’s how journalists must feel when they see their work amplified, and often turned against them, by bloggers.