Cleveland, Pulitzers, Woodward, and (OMG!!!!!!!) Katie!
So as we predicted yesterday, editor Doug Clifton's column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer concerning the marriage of columnist Connie Schultz and Senate candidate Sherrod Brown – and how it would affect the paper's coverage of Brown – has garnered some strong reaction, according to Editor & Publisher.
Schultz told E&P that she "listened to about 200 calls. Most of them were from women supporting me. They were angry at the idea that I was supposedly parroting my husband's viewpoints."
E&P also got a quote from National Society of Newspaper Columnists President Suzette Martinez Standring. "The public loves to see a husband and wife supporting each other," Standring wrote in an e-mail. "Unless the husband, Sherrod Brown, is running for U.S. Senate and his wife, Connie Schultz, is a prominent columnist with The Plain Dealer. Then surely, the vultures will circle."
Another story we've been following is that of recent developments with the Pulitzer Prize. According to a press release, newspapers can now submit online material for consideration "in all 14 of its journalism categories." But as the Wall Street Journal points out, "The board [that awards the Pulitzer Prizes]…said it would continue to limit the competition to newspapers that publish a print edition, rather than allow entries by online-only publications such as Slate, Salon, MSNBC.com or the many blogs that proliferate on the Web. Some online journalists argued the board needs to further expand the scope of the Pulitzers, the most revered awards in American print journalism."
One of those online journalists is Salon editor Joan Walsh, who told the Journal that the people behind the Pulitzer "have to figure out a way to honor the very best journalism … and not merely protect the newspaper industry, which is kind of what this decision looks like."
Schultz told E&P that she "listened to about 200 calls. Most of them were from women supporting me. They were angry at the idea that I was supposedly parroting my husband's viewpoints."
E&P also got a quote from National Society of Newspaper Columnists President Suzette Martinez Standring. "The public loves to see a husband and wife supporting each other," Standring wrote in an e-mail. "Unless the husband, Sherrod Brown, is running for U.S. Senate and his wife, Connie Schultz, is a prominent columnist with The Plain Dealer. Then surely, the vultures will circle."
Another story we've been following is that of recent developments with the Pulitzer Prize. According to a press release, newspapers can now submit online material for consideration "in all 14 of its journalism categories." But as the Wall Street Journal points out, "The board [that awards the Pulitzer Prizes]…said it would continue to limit the competition to newspapers that publish a print edition, rather than allow entries by online-only publications such as Slate, Salon, MSNBC.com or the many blogs that proliferate on the Web. Some online journalists argued the board needs to further expand the scope of the Pulitzers, the most revered awards in American print journalism."
One of those online journalists is Salon editor Joan Walsh, who told the Journal that the people behind the Pulitzer "have to figure out a way to honor the very best journalism … and not merely protect the newspaper industry, which is kind of what this decision looks like."
How gold pays for 