Pulitzer Winner Donates Money to Teach Rural Journalists
Here’s the feel-good story of the day. Daniel Gilbert, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, has decided to donate $10,000 of prize money to the organization that taught him investigative reporting tools.
Gilbert won the Pulitzer for a series on natural-gas royalty mismanagement in Sou thwest Virginia for the Bristol Herald Courier after he took classes at the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) organization to learn more tools for investigative reporting. To show his appreciation, Gilbert has teamed up with the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky to create the Fund for Rural Computer-Assisted Reporting.
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