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April 4, 2005 5 p.m. |
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Connie Schultz, 1979 graduate, wins Pulitzer Prize
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She's third Kent JMC grad to win journalism's
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By Chris
Seper Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz -- who mixes modern wit and passion with the journalistic tradition of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable -- is the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Schultz is first member of The Plain Dealer in over 50 years to win journalism's greatest honor. In 1953, editorial cartoonist Edward D. Kuekes won for a cartoon about a fallen Korean War soldier who died before he was old enough to vote. The award was announced April 4 in New York by the Pulitzer board. Schultz was selected from a group of finalists that included New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who wrote about his efforts to free enslaved child prostitutes in Cambodia. To read the entire Plain Dealer story, click here: Schultz earlier won the prestigious 2004 Batten Medal for compassionate and courageous writing. It's named after Jim Batten, reporter, editor and publishing executive for Knight Ridder, who died in 1995. Schultz is a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She won the award for her feature stories and columns that reflect "compassion, courage, humanity and a deep concern for the underdog." A former editor of the Daily Kent Stater, Schultz was a freelance writer for 15 years before joining the Plain Dealer in 1993. She began writing a column a year and a half ago. Last year, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for a series of articles about a man who spent 13 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. |
The series, entitled "The Burden of Innocence," won Best of Show in the National Headliner Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Social Justice Reporting. She also has been honored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press Society of Ohio, and the Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. "Connie Schultz's work is brilliant, both for the quality of her reporting and her compelling story telling," the panel of judges said. "Schultz is an insightful and compassionate writer whose work reflects the values of Jim Batten." The Batten Medal judges said they were especially impressed with the range of Schultz' work and her ability to "make stories of ordinary people significant, meaningful and touching." Another Kent JMC graduate, Regina Brett, won the Batten Award three years ago. JMC's previous individual Pulitzer Prize winners were J. Ross Baughman and John Filo, both in photography. |
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