2015 Pulitzer Seminar: Giving Voice to the Voiceless

Hosted by the Pulitzer Prize Administrator's Office in conjunction with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism
Mike Pride (Puitzer Administrator) Diana Marcum, Glenn Smith, Jennifer Berry Hawes, Sheila Coronel (moderator), Doug Pardue, Robert Cohen and David Carson
left to right: Mike Pride (Puitzer Administrator) Diana Marcum, Glenn Smith, Jennifer Berry Hawes, Sheila Coronel (moderator), Doug Pardue, Robert Cohen and David Carson
On December 1, 2015, six prizewinning journalists discussed how their reporting and photographs told the stories of overlooked Americans. Topics and participants included:
 
Portraits of Californians in drought-stricken Central Valley
Los Angeles Times, Feature Writing Prize
Diana Marcum
 
Till Death Do Us Part
The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C., Public Service Prize
Glenn Smith, Doug Pardue and Jennifer Berry Hawes.
 
Images of despair and anger in Ferguson, MO
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Breaking News Photography Prize
David Carson and Robert Cohen.
 
Sheila Coronel, director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, and dean of academic affairs at The Journalism School, Columbia University, moderated the program.

 

Part 1: Introduction of panelists - Mike Pride, Pulitzer Prize Administrator

Part 2: Portraits of Californians in drought-stricken Central Valley - Los Angeles Times Panelist: Diana Marcum

Part 3: Til Death Do Us Part - Post and Courier, Charleston, SC Panelists: Glenn Smith, Doug Pardue and Jennifer Berry Hawes

Part 4: Images of despair and anger in Ferguson, MO - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Panelists: David Carson and Robert Cohen

Part 5: General Q & A