Two Pulitzer Prize Winners Unemployed After Winning Award
A sign of the times for big media. No fewer than two winners of the Pulitzer Prize this year were laid off by their employers between the time when they wrote their award-winning works and when they actually received the prize.
So what to make of that reality?
As a consumer of a good deal of journalism on a daily basis, I’ve got to say that it doesn’t bother me that much. A lot of the old fuddy duddies are bemoaning the loss of traditional journalism, but the evolution of journalism isn’t necessarily about content. It’s about format.
People just don’t necessarily want to get their news on paper delivered to their doorsteps any more. They want digital formats. And they want the content organized differently. And they want more sources for content, not just a few monolithic media entities deciding what news will and will not be consumed by certain regions, or even the entire nation.
I really don’t see where any of that is a bad thing. There’s still room for Pulitzer winners in the modern age of media. They’re just going to have to adapt to new ways of doing things.
