WSJ Cuts Awards Coordinator

wall_street_journal_logo_01The Wall Street Journal has cut its awards coordinator Debbie Luczak Hoffman. Hoffman — whose role was to nominate the Journal for various honors, including the Pulitzers — had been with the paper since 1992.

As Jim Romenesko notes, Gerard Baker, the Journal’s editor, recently told Der Spiegel that winning Pulitzers wasn’t important. “I don’t judge the success of the Journal by the number of Pulitzer prizes,” said Baker. “It doesn’t say anything about the quality of our journalism.”

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