TNG-CWA Members Among Winners of Pulitzer Prize

Three Newspaper Guild-CWA members – a reporter, arts critic and photographer at The New York Times – were among the individual winners of the Pulitzer Prize this year. They are members of TNG-CWA Local 31003.

Times reporter David Barstow won in the category of investigative reporting. The Pulitzer judges said his "tenacious reporting revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended."

Holland Cotter won the prize for art criticism. Judges praised his "wide ranging reviews of art, from Manhattan to China, marked by acute observation, luminous writing and dramatic storytelling."

Photojournalist Damon Winter won for feature photography "for his memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama's presidential campaign," the judges said.

Two additional awards went to New York Times staff: the breaking news award for its "rapid-fire" coverage of the Eliot Spitzer scandal, and the award for international reporting, for "masterful, groundbreaking coverage of America's deepening military and political challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan."

The staff of the Detroit Free Press, also a Guild-represented newspaper, won for local reporting on Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that eventually led to jail terms for him and his female chief of staff.