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elleng

(136,880 posts)
Mon May 4, 2020, 03:30 PM May 2020

Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for series that detailed environmental devastation

in global hot spots.

'In late 2018, Washington Post environmental writer Chris Mooney began noticing a small but recurring theme in scientific studies about climate change: Most places on the planet had gotten warmer on average over the preceding century, but some had become hotter than others. Prolonged warming had changed these local ecosystems for the worse, indicating that climate change wasn’t just an abstract future threat but an ongoing one.

Mooney began talking up the idea with his editor, Trish Wilson, and soon a series of articles, photos, videos and graphics was born. Eventually, the effort to document places on the planet that had experienced above-average warming involved 53 people in The Post’s newsroom.

On Monday, a panel of judges awarded the series the Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest honor. The project, dubbed “2C: Beyond the Limit” for the benchmark two-degree Celsius temperature rise, won for explanatory journalism.'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/washington-post-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-series-that-detailed-environmental-devastation-in-global-hot-spots/2020/05/04/89b8c7d8-8da8-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html?

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Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for series that detailed environmental devastation (Original Post) elleng May 2020 OP
If this was so great, they would have gotten a Noble Prize Dream Girl May 2020 #1
Sorry. elleng May 2020 #2
This was supposed to be funny. Left would the sarcasm thingy...did you miss Dream Girl May 2020 #3
NEEDS sarcasm thingy! elleng May 2020 #4
 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
1. If this was so great, they would have gotten a Noble Prize
Mon May 4, 2020, 04:29 PM
May 2020

So I’m not that impressed...

elleng

(136,880 posts)
2. Sorry.
Mon May 4, 2020, 04:38 PM
May 2020

an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. Was established over 100 years ago to honor exceptional achievements in journalism.

Joseph Pulitzer was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
3. This was supposed to be funny. Left would the sarcasm thingy...did you miss
Mon May 4, 2020, 05:11 PM
May 2020

the Trump and the "Noble" prize kerfufle?

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