And to the rest of the Sun Herald for winning a 2006 Pulitzer Prize.
Awarded to the Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., for its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need.
You might remember these guys from Dancing with Katrina, and from Mike’s mooning of Katrina. I guess I can say I knew them (or at least Mike, whom I know a little better) from my Columbia days in 2005.
And with that, they bid you farewell:
We stayed in the newsroom through the storm, were out in the shit every day for weeks, cried more times than I’d care to recount (although Keller’d never admit it), and had our hands in as much as half of the articles that went out from our paper in the weeks afterwards. I feel more than confident in saying that we contributed mightily to the win.
No, this blog’s content had nothing to do with the win, technically. Our editors have long since distanced themselves from it, and we never do it during work or allow our work here to trump what we do for the paper.
However, we did bring great notoriety to the paper. We did provide insight into the region that was unavailable elsewhere, and for that I feel like we contributed to the win and for that I am proudest.
This blog was great to do.
My hat is off to you and the rest of the Sun Herald’s staff. Congratulations, gentlemen.
