Apparently a lay off for one of the winners.
Just three months after he was laid off from the East Valley Tribune in Arizona, Paul Giblin learns that he won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.
There was a time newspapers treasured good reporters, now, not so much.
And then there's this account which includes a lame comment from the reporter's former editor.
It also talks about the new online venture that Paul Giblin is involved in. Good for him. How pathetic for the newspaper who laid off a Pulitzer Prize winner.
And one more account.
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The publisher's inability to humanize for a sec and say something more meaningful about the laid off reporters instead of the standard PR bull they disseminate is .... astounding. Though no different than a couple Booth publishers I could name but won't.
Maybe something like:
"We are very sorry to lose such a great talent as Paul. We are pleased that he and our paper have been honored in such a distinguished way. We wish Paul nothing but the best as he moves forward with his career."
or
"It is a bittersweet honor that we have won such a prestigious award, but no longer have Paul here to celebrate with us. He was an integral part of our staff and family here at the Tribune and like all the employees we have been forced to cut, we wish him well in the future."
Would that have been better?
Yeah, like that.
at least either of those statements would have been more forthright. Irony is that these businessmen in an industry specializing in communicating fails so miserably with its own PR. Readers see right through the BS quotes.
I haven't read his stories, but being from Texas, I can tell Giblin that lots and lots of crimes here in America (especially in border states) are committed by illegal immigrants. A family member of mine in the southeast was killed by a drunk driver who was an illegal from mexico and had no license, no insurance.
Anonymous 22:24
I'm with you. Just a few years ago I covered a manslaughter death of a young high school girl here in Lapeer, who was killed by an illegal immigrant.
He escaped to Mexico to avoid charges here and it took nearly five years to get him back to face charges.
You don't have to be in Texas to see the negative effect on crime by illegal aliens.
I'm one of those who is all for sealing up the border, including to companies who want to move all our jobs there.
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