Jodi Kantor Wins Pulitzer for Samuel Alito Coverage

AP — The Pulitzer committee announced today that New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor has won a prize in the new Hyper-Local News category for her coverage of the Justice Sam Alito flag controversy.

The committee has had a Local Reporting prize since 2007 but added the new category, in its words, “to honor journalists who cover neighborhood association disputes, fights over whether leaves should be bagged or loose at the curb, and how late the lights at local ballparks should be allowed to stay on — in other words, matters that might ordinarily be dismissed but can be of great consequence to the future of American democracy.”

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AP — The Pulitzer committee announced today that New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor has won a prize in the new Hyper-Local News category for her coverage of the Justice Sam Alito flag controversy.

The committee has had a Local Reporting prize since 2007 but added the new category, in its words, “to honor journalists who cover neighborhood association disputes, fights over whether leaves should be bagged or loose at the curb, and how late the lights at local ballparks should be allowed to stay on — in other words, matters that might ordinarily be dismissed but can be of great consequence to the future of American democracy.”