Reporter Joe Brown embraces reporter Alexandra Berzon as she returns to the newsroom and learns of the Las Vegas Sun’s win of the Pulitzer Prize for public service for exposing a high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip, at the Las Vegas Sun offices in Henderson, Nevada on Monday, April 20, 2009.
Thursday, April 23, 2009 | midnight
Sun wins Pulitzer
The Las Vegas Sun on Monday won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, journalism's most prestigious award, for its investigation of construction deaths on the Las Vegas Strip and the failures of government, management and labor unions to protect workers. Judges singled out Sun staff writer Alexandra Berzon for "courageous reporting" in persevering against closed doors and intimidation.
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The Las Vegas Sun (the Weekly’s corporate sibling) has been pumping out consistently high-quality work for some time, and it’s finally been rewarded, with the Holy Grail of journalism awards, no less: the Pulitzer. It’s the first time in Las Vegas’ history that a local paper has achieved the honor (it’s only happened in the entire state one other time, 32 years ago). Alexandra Berzon’s pieces on construction deaths on the Strip not only broke nationwide, but they also changed policy. If that’s not an argument for saving newspapers, we don’t know what is.
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