In 2024 I wrote in this space about how far-away reporters won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting about events that happened in the Las Vegas area. A team from Reuters writing about the nefarious business activities of Elon Musk described a suburban Las Vegas office of his Tesla devoted to talking Tesla buyers out of demanding better battery performance for their electric vehicles. That Reuters story is still online (click here). A follow-up at the end of my post noted that the article about the prestigious Pulitzers in the next day’s Las Vegas Review-Journal made no mention of the big story reported out under its very nose.
This year, we have a variation on this theme of no coverage. The annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced in New York on Monday. The story about the awards in the print edition of the next day’s RJ–now the country’s fourth largest newspaper never to have won one–made reference in some manner to 12 of the 15 journalism and special citation awards (another eight were given for arts and letters). As it happens, one of the three awards not referenced by the RJ concerned material rather unfavorable to the billionaire Adelson family, which has owned the paper since 2015.
Mark Lamster, the architecture critic of The Dallas Morning News, won the Criticism award for, in the words of the citation, “using wit and expertise to amplify his opinions and advocate for city residents.” A lot of those opinions expressed heated opposition to a proposal to tear down the striking, nearly half-century-old I.M. Pei-designed Dallas City Hall and replace it with a government-subsidized basketball arena to house the Dallas Mavericks. The team is majority owned by the Adelsons, whose monied members live in Las Vegas. Continue reading
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