Among the finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing, announced with the other Pulitzers about 20 minutes ago, is Amy Ellis Nutt, a reporter at the Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ. Here’s the citation:
Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., for her poignant, deeply reported story of a chiropractor who suffered a severe stroke following brain surgery and became a wildly creative artist, in many ways estranged from his former self
The Star-Ledger, you may remember, was very nearly shuttered less than six months ago. [Imbue personal readings on the causes of journalism crisis here]: I sometimes still blame greedy CEOs.
Unfortunately, the Star-Ledger website is so abysmal, it’s hard to find the story. It looks like a video…but it’s not! Go here, watch the intro, and then choose from the menu on the left to get to Nutt’s 9-part piece.
The Pulitzer in this category went to Lane DeGregory, of the also-threatened St. Petersburg Times.
