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I am a staff writer with CTV.ca News. That operation is part of CTV News, which is of course nestled into CTV Inc. and CTVglobemedia.

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View Article  Pulitzer Prize winners announced

Here's the full news release.

Here's the Pulitzer website (it's framed - agghh!!).

Here's the NYT story. The paper's coverage graciously highlighted the two Pulitzers won by the Wall Street Journal:

The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer Prize for public service yesterday for uncovering the unethical practices of business executives who had rewarded themselves millions of dollars by backdating stock options. The articles, by Charles Forelle, James Bandler, Mark Maremont and Steve Stecklow, have led to the federal investigation of more than 130 companies, and at least 70 top executives have lost their jobs.

In awarding The Journal its highest journalistic honor, the Pulitzer Prize Board said the paper had brought about “widespread change in corporate America.”

The Journal also won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, for a series of articles about the adverse effects of industrial development on China. The Journal was the only newspaper to win more than one award.

View Article  Deleting the photographic evidence

A report released on the weekend criticized a group of U.S. Marines in Afghanistan who went on a 12-kilometre-long shooting spree earlier this winter.

Gregg Mitchell of Editor and Publisher wrote about parts of the report that dealt with the U.S. military's decision to censor some AP journalists: (via truthout)

A freelance photographer working for The AP and a cameraman working for AP Television News said then a U.S. soldier deleted their photos and video showing a four-wheel drive vehicle in which three people were shot to death about 100 yards from the suicide bombing. The AP lodged a protest with the American military.

The military defended their action in a letter to the AP later, stating that images gathered by "untrained people" might "capture visual details that are not as they originally were." But the Afghan commission concluded that there were "not sufficient grounds to justify the substantial curtailment of the right to freedom of expression, especially as the loss of information caused by these actions was directly harmful to the successful undertaking of a genuinely impartial investigation."

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