And the Pulitzer Goes to...

The Boston Globe's Charlie Savage. Earlier today the Pulitzer Prizes were announced. The Globe's Charlie Savage won the honor for his work in National Reporting. It's good to know that our little newspaper of record is not being totally out done by its big brother (and owner) the New York Times. Savage won for his series of reports on Bush's use of signing statements to bypass parts of new laws. Boston.com has put together a full list of linked articles by Savage to demonstrate the reporting that took home the Pulitzer.

The Globe was also nominated in the Local Reporting category. They lost out to the Miami Herald. The Globe Staff had been nominated for "its well documented exposure, in print and online, of unscrupulous debt collectors, causing two firms to close and prompting action by state officials." With the recent shakeups and staff reductions at the local papers (both the Globe and the Herald) we hope that Boston's journalists will remain in the running for Pulitzer awards in the future. Of course we like the focus it brings as a world class city, but getting results like those outlined in the Local Reporting section are the kind we like to see come from uncovering a story.

Full list of 2007 winners available from the Pulitzer Prize site.