Excerpt: “Levine and his reporters beat everyone to the Edwards scoop; not since Bill Clinton’s first “bimbo eruptions” has a supermarket tabloid so completely owned a major political story, which led a number of columnists, beginning with D.C.-based blogger Emily Miller, to suggest that the Enquirer‘s work on Edwards was worthy of a Pulitzer...
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(Click to read this column on Big Journalism) ABC News is being publicly slaughtered by its own staff at the The New York Observer website, giving specific accusations of an ABC executive’s illegally hiring and firing without just cause, promoting based on whims, discriminating against homosexuals, blacks and sexually harassing of employees. In reaction to these public...
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The U.S. military has few supporters in Hollywood, so actor Ricky Schroder stands out as an outspoken patriot for the men in womenin uniform and their sacrifice for our country. Schroder is in Washington, D.C. for the G.I. Film Festival(GIFF) which honors the heroic stories of U.S. armed forces and their successes and sacrifices for...
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The L’Enfant Society’s “Ball on the Mall” Saturday night was the spectacular site of D.C.’s young philanthropists dining and dancing under the up-lit Washington Monument with the U.S. Capitol shining in the distance. The same paths we runners use by day had been transformed at night into a beautiful, sparkly party. Men in tuxedos and women in bright colored...
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I’m going to fire off a follow-up toTuesday’s item in this place on the Pulitzer Prize, and more specifically, the fact that the black sheep The National Enquirer didn’t collect one for its continued breaking coverage of John Edwards’ extramarital romp in 2009. Right up front I’ll say that my contention is that no matter where...
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Click here to listen to interview with Emily Miller, “Washington Times” Why didn’t “The Enquirer” get a Pulitzer for breaking the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter story? http://www.emilymiller.org Tweet This Post
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The most famous US tabloid is up for the country’s top journalism award, for its coverage of a presidential candidate’s extra-marital affair. But would it be a worthy winner? It is now more than two and a half years since that September afternoon when Rick Egusquiza picked up the phone. The journalist and former...
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(NEWSER) – By any sane measure, the unmasking of John Edwards as a philanderer who knocked up his mistress while his wife battled cancer was one of the all-time great scoops—except in determining the winners of yesterday’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. “The media elite circled the wagons to exclude the scrappy, self-proclaimed supermarket tabloid,” Emily Miller writes...
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Absolutely. The Enquirer was robbed: While the rest of the journalism world was sleeping, says Emily Miller in The Washington Times, the National Enquirer shouldered the "expense of running a top-notch" investigation that ultimately brought to light the Edwards sex scandal. The Enquirer has won some hard-earned respect — for itself and all "nontraditional...
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When the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday, the outlet most deserving of the prestigious journalism award was glaringly absent from the list: The National Enquirer. The New York Times and The Washington Post took half of the prizes, which is not surprising, considering that much of the Pulitzer jury came from these publications....
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Click to read on Gawker The National Enquirer didn’t win a Pulitzer today for its reporting on John Edwards‘ baby mama drama. How’s the tabloid coping with defeat? Just after the results were announced, we called Barry Levine, the Enquirer‘s executive editor, to find out. The Enquirer had been nominated for awards in the investigative and national reporting categories....
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Click to read at Politisite Emily Miller’s new gig at the Washington Times has her asking if the National Enquirer was snubbed by snobs. I wonder if a Pulitzer would have gone their way if they uncovered a Republican Presidential candidate whoring around while his Wife suffered from Cancer. But a Pulitzer in investigative reporting...
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