Gawker Journo: Pulitzer Prizes Don't Matter Anymore

Today’s Gawker Op Ed by John Cook is perfect spring fodder for students at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. That’s where Sharon Bernstein, one of Cook’s cited examples of Pulitzer’s 21st century irrelevance, will soon be teaching as a visiting professor.

Cook points to laid off LA Times staffer Bernstein (now with NBCLA) and other Pulitzer Prize winners who have been terminated, including a former workmate at the Chicago Tribune, Jeff Lyon, who took a buyout in 2009.

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