Huge congratulations to my old colleagues at The Toledo Blade, who won the highest award in journalism today: the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. The Blade is one of the few newspapers of its size (140,000 daily circulation) that is willing to put significant resources into investigations like these, and for that it should be congratulated and honored. (The Blade was also a finalist for the investigative Pulizer in 2000.) Special congrats to my former partner in crime Mike Sallah.
In case you have ever had occasion to doubt my predictive powers, I point you to this November entry: “[P]rops to Mike Sallah and Mitch Weiss at my old non-college paper for writing a series on Vietnam war crimes that will in all likelihood win a Pulitzer Prize. My only regret: If I was still in Toledo, I know I’d be getting a piece of that Pulitzer. Mike and I were the go-to p. 1 projects team for my last year there.”
Not that I’m bitter that coming to the Dallas Morning News — which seemed like a no-brainer career move — in all likelihood meant losing a Pulitzer Prize. No, not bitter at all.
The Dallas Morning News also won a Pulitzer today, in breaking news photography. Congrats to David and Cheryl, two extraordinarily talented people I’ve had the pleasure to work with on several occasions. Here are the winning photos.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be in the bathtub, slitting my wrists.
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Josh, do you really think they would have pulled you all the way back in from the Pitcairne Island bureau for THAT? Naw.
Keep enjoying that progressive Texas atmosphere. See you on your next visit.
— LV
Hmmm… but Im sure all that sun has led to a really great tan.
But you left The Blade for “browner” pastures. So I guess we’ll never know, will we?
Perhaps Brando said it best in on the Waterfront:
“I coulda been somebody, Charlie. I coulda been a contenda.”
Josh: Will the last person leaving Toledo please close the lid!
Because when you’re off to Washington or New York, I’ll still be sitting on wet seats! Gotta love the grit (who could forget Leo’s Book Store. He always had the best porn!)