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Courtesy the Pulitzer Prizes. Some of the winners:

New York Daily News and ProPublica

For uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities.

Eric Eyre of Charleston Gazette-Mail, Charleston, WV

For courageous reporting, performed in the face of powerful opposition, to expose the flood of opioids flowing into depressed West Virginia counties with the highest overdose death rates in the country.

David A. Fahrenthold of The Washington Post

For persistent reporting that created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage while casting doubt on Donald Trump’s assertions of generosity toward charities.

The New York Times Staff

For agenda-setting reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Russia’s power abroad, revealing techniques that included assassination, online harassment and the planting of incriminating evidence on opponents.

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon)

For a narrative history that sets high standards for scholarly judgment and tenacity of inquiry in seeking the truth about the 1971 Attica prison riots.

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (Crown)

For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty.

Far more at the link.

 

[LucidMomentum]

There's some amazing writing in the articles awarded. Really incredible work.

 

[Veritigo_X]

Glad Fahrenthold got one. His reporting on the Trump Foundation was great.

 

[FlyinJ]

No nomination for Mike Cernovich? Sad! Fake awards.

 

[Stinkles]

No forum pun award? No satirical film criticism? Dookake and Mandrake robbed again.

 

[Seiryoden]

Peggy Noonan sticks in the throat, but other than that I think the PPB nailed it this year. Here's your weekend reading GAF. Or if you don't like reading, look at Jason Wambsgan's photo studies of a Chicago kid who survived a shooting.

 

[Palette Swap]

It's always a good way to catch up on great articles you might have missed.

Speaking of good writing, these are all great:

Feature Writing

C. J. Chivers of The New York Times
For showing, through an artful accumulation of fact and detail, that a Marine’s postwar descent into violence reflected neither the actions of a simple criminal nor a stereotypical case of PTSD.

Adam Entous and Devlin Barrett of The Wall Street Journal
Eli Saslow of The Washington Post

FWIW, Longform is a great way to find interesting and generally well written articles. Their podcast is also pretty good.

 

[Arkeband]

Surprised that neither Shane Bauer's border militia or private prison guard undercover stories won one.

 

[SeanC]

Some important works going on out there but most of America is too busy finding out if Mama June has gone from not to hot yet.

 

[Tallshortman]

Glad Fahrenthold got one. His reporting on the Trump Foundation was great.

Yep Fahrenthold was a revelation.

 

[mr jones]

Peggy Noonan sticks in the throat, but other than that I think the PPB nailed it this year. Here's your weekend reading GAF. Or if you don't like reading, look at Jason Wambsgan's photo studies of a Chicago kid who survived a shooting.

I ALMOST made it through that entire article without tearing up. Almost.

I moved from my last neighborhood because fools were shooting there. I couldn't imagine having my kid shot up. I really think it would ruin me.

 

[xxracerxx]

Fake Awards!!!

 

[whytemyke]

Total bullshit that my self-published noir thriller about a baker who secretly kills the women who reject him, The Kneady Breadmaker, didn't get nominated. These things are all political anyways. Just gotta know the right people.

Still, it stings.

 

[HStallion]

I feel Breitbart was robbed on a number of articles like,"Was Hitler really so bad?" and "Donald Trump Cures Cancer With the Truth!"

 

[TheLaughingStock]

Nothing for H.A. Goodman this year?

 

[SummitAve]

Surprised that neither Shane Bauer's border militia or private prison guard undercover stories won one.

I was too, especially the private prison one. That was my favorite read of the year. There are apparently ethical debates about journalists misrepresenting themselves that makes it disqualifying to some extent.

I read The Fighter earlier and couldn't reccomend it enough. Really powerful stuff.

 

[Dai101]

Fake Awards!!!

Hell yeah. Where's breitbart!!

 

[jack_package_200]

Nothing for H.A. Goodman this year?

Lol

He is the worst. Asshole created so much fake Bernie news and spam.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Some important works going on out there but most of America is too busy finding out if Mama June has gone from not to hot yet.

Journalism needs more hot women plastered on it.

We solved the crisis.

 

[Badosh]

I worked with Tyehimba Jess the second semester of my master's program. Amazing guy, better writer. Olio deserved it.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Well deserved for the NY Times and the Washington Post.

Surprised that neither Shane Bauer's border militia or private prison guard undercover stories won one.

I just about to post that. Those were the two best stories I read last year.