Staff ReportsJune 12, 2021
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The series uncovered targeted policing practices in Pasco County many believed were predatory.
Tag: Pulitzer Prize
Staff ReportsJune 12, 2021
Scott PowersApril 15, 2019
2min404
The Sun Sentinel won the same award in 2013.
Jacob OglesFebruary 4, 2019
4min587
Andrew Pollack, Ryan Petty say local reporters focused on what caused tragedy.
Associated PressApril 10, 2017
18min312
The Latest on the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts (all times local): 6 p.m. When Chinese composer Du Yun heard she won the Pulitzer Prize for music, she thought it was a prank. Yun had just returned from a day of panels at The Culture Summit in Abu Dhabi, and her librettist texted […]
Joe HendersonDecember 5, 2016
5min217
On Sunday afternoon, a man carrying an AR-15 assault rifle walked into a popular pizza place in northwest Washington D.C. and began shooting. No one was hurt, thank goodness and the gunman was arrested. What he said after being taken away, though, should be a warning to us all. He said he came to “self-investigate” […]
Martin DyckmanMay 4, 2016
7min417
Early in 1955, when I was a sophomore at Florida State University, I thought about applying for a summer job at the Clearwater Sun, the now-defunct newspaper where I had been a student correspondent and had already spent one vacation. That’s when Momma Bird kicked me out of the nest. “You’ll do no such thing,” […]
Peter SchorschMay 4, 2016
6min184
An earlier draft of a Q&A on the Tampa Bay Times’ acquisition/homicide of the Tampa Tribune has been discovered. Thank you to the anonymous source who forwarded this. SUBSCRIPTION & DELIVERY I subscribe to both papers. What do I do? — We’ll consolidate your subscriptions. But don’t even think of canceling the Tampa Bay Times — we […]
Julie DelegalApril 28, 2016
10min247
Florida’s approach to improving public education is getting serious scrutiny on several fronts. Now is the time to take a good look at whether the changes we’ve endured — mass privatization, real-dollar funding decreases, high-stakes testing, and loss of local school board authority — gets us closer to carrying out our constitutional duty to our […]
Mitch PerryApril 19, 2016
6min189
Welcome to April 19, the 23rd anniversary of the Waco siege and the 21st anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. And now today’s NY state primary, which, by the shape of things, could be pretty anti-climactic. Donald Trump‘s victory is a given, and right now most polls have Bernie Sanders down by double-digits to Hillary Clinton. […]
Mitch PerryApril 18, 2016
4min650
The Tampa Bay Times took home not one, but two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday. Their investigation into Pinellas County public schools, “Failure Factories,” took the Pulitzer for Local Reporting. The investigation, researched and reported by Cara Fitzpatrick, Lisa Garter and Michael La Forgia showed how the school district abandoned integration efforts in 2007 and then failed […]