I hope you get the award. If only to recognise the importance of calling out evil that exists in this world. So much is wrong with humanity and people with wealth and power face increasingly less scruitiny or even worse the media is owned and actively assists them in their nefarious activity. I'm glad their are people like you Lauren holding them to account. Its needed. Its necessary.
Wow. A Pulitzer!! So well deserved and congratulations! Those stories you wrote were nail biting and horrifying and need to be widely publicized. I still think of your journalist friend, the amazing artist, who was monitoring the trials of those evil men and hope he is doing well.
I am relatively new to writing and have just started calling myself a writer in the past few months. I write about sustainability and about how we need to embrace true and radical change in how we consume if we want our children to live on this same planet. I have been writing, however, editorial pieces, just sharing my heart. Your article really opened me up to the power of writing and how our words can actually create the change we want to see.
Thank you for this push. And, of course, congratulations on the amazing work. What a way to start my International Women's Day celebrations.
Great work! I do worry though that the motivation for good journalism turns to activism. I think there is always a need to self-correct for that as the activist pursuit would tend to corrupt the journalism pursuit. The key I think, as in everything, is self-awareness and balance. Good journalism, real investigative reporting, it has great impacts on making the world a better place just because it speaks the truth.
That's journalistic reporting at it's best!
I hope you get the award. If only to recognise the importance of calling out evil that exists in this world. So much is wrong with humanity and people with wealth and power face increasingly less scruitiny or even worse the media is owned and actively assists them in their nefarious activity. I'm glad their are people like you Lauren holding them to account. Its needed. Its necessary.
Kind regards
Al
Lauren, You deserve all the accolades you get. You are an outstanding journalist. D
Wow. A Pulitzer!! So well deserved and congratulations! Those stories you wrote were nail biting and horrifying and need to be widely publicized. I still think of your journalist friend, the amazing artist, who was monitoring the trials of those evil men and hope he is doing well.
Lauren, this article changed me.
I am relatively new to writing and have just started calling myself a writer in the past few months. I write about sustainability and about how we need to embrace true and radical change in how we consume if we want our children to live on this same planet. I have been writing, however, editorial pieces, just sharing my heart. Your article really opened me up to the power of writing and how our words can actually create the change we want to see.
Thank you for this push. And, of course, congratulations on the amazing work. What a way to start my International Women's Day celebrations.
Great work! I do worry though that the motivation for good journalism turns to activism. I think there is always a need to self-correct for that as the activist pursuit would tend to corrupt the journalism pursuit. The key I think, as in everything, is self-awareness and balance. Good journalism, real investigative reporting, it has great impacts on making the world a better place just because it speaks the truth.