Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | 8:32 a.m.
James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times writes that Sun reporter Alexandra Berzon's Pultizer Prize for the series on construction deaths on the Las Vegas Strip "struck a blow" for investigative reporting:
The Pulitzer Prize for public service went not to those blockbuster, brand-name finalists but, instead, to a little newspaper hardly anybody's heard of, published in a town nobody associates with the search for truth.
The Las Vegas Sun and the Pulitzer board in faraway New York struck a blow this week for gritty, one-person, no-back-down reporting. The paper's triumph also raised questions about whether it represents a new paradigm -- newspapers forsaking small game in search of the big kill.
- Sun wins the Pulitzer Prize (4-21-2009)
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