Byline: Harry Rosenfeld Editor
The Pulitzer prizes for journalism passed through their third stage last week, with one more to go before the winners are announced in the spring.
Some 65 writers and editors came together on the campus of Columbia University for three days to judge the entries submitted for this year's awards.
The first stage took place in 1986 when the work was done. The second stage came earlier this year, when editors at the various publications selected their entries. The third stage was the consideration of the entries by the jurors.
Jurors were divided into groups of five, each with a chairman or chairwoman, to consider 13 separate categories. These ranged from public service, which brings the winning publication a gold medal, through investigative reporting, explanatory journalism, commentary, criticism and so on. My assignment was international reporting.
That was a lucky draw, not only because I have spent much of my working life in foreign news (at the New …
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