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joeblogsmommayesterday at 10:26 PM3 repliesview on HN

Pablo Torre and Julie K. Brown are the only truly deserving winners here. Anyone willing to break down and discuss the Epstein case is a real journalist and both of them have done exactly that. The Times and other major outlets were reticent to cover it, and have since routinely run puff pieces. Riley Walz and the folks at Jmail deserve a lot of credit as well.


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joeblogsmommayesterday at 10:27 PM

Will say if you haven't checked pablo's clippers saga both hilarious in the way it was covered and that Balmer and Co thought that they could get away with this! Hamburger!!

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jkestneryesterday at 10:55 PM

Aaron Parsley's account of the Kerrville flood in Texas Monthly is deserving. A waterline-level personal account that makes a disaster real. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-first...

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a_bonoboyesterday at 11:43 PM

Some evidence as to why Brown did not originally win the Pulitzer, instead this citation a few years too late:

>Brown’s “Perversion of Justice” series won a prestigious George Polk award. The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz, the attorney and television personality who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/julie-brown-pulit...

The rot runs deep