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	Poynter Online - Death of the Feature
		They reveal serious topics (the war wounded, a mother struggling to keep her children, the Shuttle disaster); they are weighty in both tone and evidence; they are the product of the significant expenditure of journalistic resources; and they take up a lot of space in the paper, commanding readers' time and attention.
		While quality of writing is not crucial in the Pulitzer competition -- as opposed to the ASNE Distinguished Writing Awards or the Ernie Pyle Award -- surely we'd expect a Pulitzer winner in the features category to stand out for the quality of the prose.
		The Death of the feature is greatly exaggerated...
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=65954 (1177 words)

	Feature Writing, Marshall Soules, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In a version of featurizing, pressure from advertisers or lobbyists often result in writing that appears at first blush to be news when it is, in fact, promotion for a product, idea, or policy.
		Instead, they may write a chronology that builds to a climax at the end, a narrative, a first-person article about one of their own experiences or a combination of these.
		Because a feature generally runs longer than a news story, it is effective to weave a thread throughout the story, which connects the lead to the body and to the conclusion.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/media301/feature.htm (1259 words)

	National Writers Workshop - Orange County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1998, he was awarded a Pulitzer prize for feature writing for "Angels & Demons," a seven-part serial that chronicled a mother and her two teen daughters who were murdered while vacationing in Tampa Bay.
		In 2005, she and her colleagues were named finalists in team deadline writing by the American Society of Newspaper Editors for their coverage of the Scott Peterson murder trial verdict.
		In 1997, she was a Pulitzer finalist in feature writing as well as an ASNE feature writing finalist for stories about the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, three star-crossed teen-agers with a suicide pact; and a giant vacuum that sucks up prairie dogs.
	www.ocregister.com /nww/speakers.shtml (1474 words)

	Poynter Online - Reviving the Feature Story
		In my recent essay about the Feature Writing category of the Pulitzer Prizes, I argued that weighty narrative series may have elbowed the traditional stand-alone feature out of contention.
		(The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing is important only because it declares a standard of excellence to which other journalists aspire.) Readers like stories, even news stories, written in "feature style," according to the Readership Institute.
		Feature stories offer news of the emotions is the way Jon Franklin, twice a Pulitzer winner, has described it to me.
	poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=67829 (1014 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / No Pulitzer in feature writing a first for that category (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The decision not to award a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing this year marks the first time that category has gone without a winner and the 24th time in the Pulitzers' 88-year history that a journalism category has had no winner.
		None of the 2004 feature writing finalists garnered a majority of the board members' votes, said award administrator Sig Gissler.
		The feature writing finalists were Robert Lee Hotz of the Los Angeles Times, for his story on the investigation into the cause of the space shuttle Columbia's explosion; Anne Hull and Tamara Jones of The
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/04/06/no_pulitzer_in_feature_writing_a_first_for_that_category (301 words)

	Top Ten
		Writing under the pseudonym "Annie Laurie," Black was one of the most famous of the early "sob sisters." Black and other early women reporters often were asked to write dramatic, emotional accounts of sensational events, such as celebrity murder trials.
		She has written, "I am most often drawn to people walking the edge, curiously undefeated." Blais was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for her 1980 Miami Herald story about an 83-year-old man's campaign to convince the Pentagon to reverse his 1919 dishonorable discharge.
		Robertson also won a 1983 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for her influential Times series on toxic shock syndrome, which discussed her own nearly fatal battle with the condition.
	www.slu.edu /publications/gc/v6-2/top_ten.shtml (950 words)

	bios
		Hull was a 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist in both the National and Feature Writing categories, for Una Vida Mejor, a serial she wrote while at the St. Petersburg Times, about a group of Mexican women leaving home and laboring for season in a North Carolina crab house.
		She writes for the Village Voice and Esquire, is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, and is completing a book about the South Bronx, part of which has run in the New Yorker.
		She edited The Umpire's Son's (by Lisa Pollak), which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, and the serial, A Stage in Their Lives (by Ken Fuson), which won the 1998 ASNE Distinguished Writing Award.
	www.bu.edu /narrative/bios.htm (1820 words)

	Poynter Online: Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He teaches a writing class at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and was a Fulbright Lecturer in India.
		Isabel Wilkerson is the first fl woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first fl American to win a Pulitzer for individual reporting in the 84-year history of the Prizes.
		Currently on leave from The New York Times, Wilkerson is writing a book on the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North from the Depression to the 1960's, as seen through the stories of several generations of families and their migrations.
	legacy.poynter.org /nww/nieman/presenters.htm (2134 words)

	FEATURE WRITING & ELEMENTS OF STYLE PKG - Allyn & Bacon / Longman Catalog
		Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines helps students cultivate vital journalistic skills with a thorough discussion about creating and refining article ideas, conducting research and interviews, writing, and navigating legal and ethical questions.
		Its many examples feature award-winning writers—all 25 of whom have won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
		This text's world-class writing examples, extensive updates and timely tips from some of America's best feature and magazine writers have made it the premier text in its field for almost two decades.
	www.ablongman.com /catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0205410820,00.html (288 words)

	NYU Panelist Bios: Isabel Wilkerson
		won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, specifically for her profile of an inner city child and her coverage of the Mississippi floods.
		In addition to her Pulitzer, Wilkerson won the 1993 George Polk award for regional reporting and a National Association of Black Journalists "Journalist of the Year" award the next year.
		She is currently on leave from the Times, researching and writing a book on the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/race_class/thiercernese/speaker5.htm (422 words)

	2005 Nieman Narrative Conference
		She was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer in international reporting for coverage of the Ethiopian famine and won the national Associated Press Sports Editors deadline-writing contest with a story from the 1988 Summer Olympics.
		She is the author of five books and is the recipient of a number of prizes, including the Albert Londres Prize in 1996 for a series "Memories of the Holocaust." She is now a member of that jury.
		Jackson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary in 2001.
	www.nieman.harvard.edu /events/conferences/narrative2005/bios.html (5241 words)

	St. Louis National Writers' Workshop Speakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Friedman is a features reporter and the teen section editor at the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill. She received two Illinois Press Assocition awards in 2002 for "Lives Torn Apart," a story about a young man serving a 10-year prison sentence after he drove drunk and killed three teenagers.
		At this writing he is a finalist for the "Iowa Master Columnist" award presented by the Iowa Newspaper Association.
		Wilkerson is the first fl woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first fl American to win a Pulitzer for individual reporting in the 84-year history of the Prizes.
	www.nww-stlouis.org /speakers.html (3691 words)

	Workshops on Journalism, Race & Ethnicity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Angelo was awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for his dramatic narrative, "Crime Scene: Beyond the Statistics, A Druggist Confronts the Reality of Robbery." He was honored by the race workshop for a portfolio of work that showed his skill in writing about minority issues from a business perspective.
		Angelo Henderson was awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
		No reporter writing about race should have to deal with an editor who has problems with or is not interested in race.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /events/race/APME/growingyourcontent_pulitzer.asp (685 words)

	Hispanic Magazine.com - November 2003 - 2003 Trendsetters - Sonia Nazario
		Los Angeles Times journalist Sonia Nazario won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for “Enrique’s Journey,” about a Honduran boy’s trek to find his mother in the United States.
		She tried explaining to her editor that her dream was to become a foreign correspondent and write about Latin America.
		Her series on the children of drug-addicted parents was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1998.
	www.hispaniconline.com /magazine/2003/nov/Features/trendsetters-sonia.html (1259 words)

	UAF Newsroom: Journalism department to host three Pulitzer Prize winners
		Pulitzer prize-winners Eric Nalder with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Julie Sullivan with The Oregonian and Tom French of the St. Petersburg Times are scheduled to visit UAF.
		Eric Nalder has received two Pulitzer Prizes, one for national reporting in 1990 and another for investigative reporting in 1997.
		She won her Pulitzer Prize as part of The Oregonian team that exposed serious flaws within U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
	www.uaf.edu /news/a_news/20050323163124.html (429 words)

	University of Alabama News
		Each year, the department bestows this honor upon a recipient who has made an outstanding contribution to nonfiction writing over the course of his or her career and has been associated with the state of Alabama or The University of Alabama.
		The poem, along with selected interviews, is also featured in "Conversations with Albert Murray." He appeared recently on television in the PBS series "Jazz," produced by Ken Burns, which aired in January 2001.
		He is the recipient of the ASNE Distinguished Writing Award, along with the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
	www.ua.edu /advancement/ur/releases/feb01/cason022201.htm (1396 words)

	GoHastings.com Item Information
		This is Bragg's hometown, and he began his story on the tragedy for the New York Times as follows: "This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.
		This is a place where the song `Jesus Loves Me' has rocked generations to sleep, and heaven is not a concept, but a destination." It is writing of this quality that won the author his job as a national correspondent and the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
		It is the story of a war-haunted, hard-drinking father and a strong-willed, loving mother who struggled to protect her sons from the effects of poverty and ignorance that had constricted her own life.
	www.gohastings.com /catalog/item/item.asp?prodid=20068168 (640 words)

	SAC News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pulitzer Prize winner Don Bartletti, a photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times Orange County Edition, will give a lecture and a slide presentation titled "Bound to El Norte" on Monday, Nov. 17, 10 a.m., in the Visual Arts and Technology Center (Courtland Place and Lewis St.), Room 120.
		Bartletti won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portrayal of how undocumented Central American youth, often facing dangers, travel north to the United States.
		Nazario won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her story of a Honduran boy's search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.
	www.accd.edu /sac/pr/Newrel2/foxking.htm (214 words)

	Previous Releases - Pulitzer Prize Winning Author at the Mount October 2 - 9/17/2003 - ...
		Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, author of the national bestseller on diversity and education, A Hope in the Unseen, will speak at the College of Mount St. Joseph Theatre on Thursday, October 2, 7:00 p.m.
		Suskind won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for his stories on Cedric Jennings.
		He is also one of the prize winning authors whose writing appears in Profiles in Courage for Our Times (Hyperion, 2002), edited by Caroline Kennedy.
	www.msj.edu /about/news/archives/2003_2004/index.asp?straction=readarticle&article=article_20040722_130110 (403 words)

	Bancroft Press - Alice Steinbach
		Alice Steinbach, a journalist since 1977, was a reporter, feature writer, and columnist for the Baltimore Sun until 1999.
		In 1985, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
		She was appointed the 1998-1999 McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University and is currently a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
	www.bancroftpress.com /asteinbach_bio.html (308 words)

	AngeloInk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Working as deputy Detroit bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, Angelo B. Henderson was honored with the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished feature writing.
		The Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award given for journalistic excellence, is presented annually by Columbia University in New York City.
		Henderson's reporting and relating of this story are in the highest traditions of American journalism, and I proudly submit "Crime Scene: Beyond the Statistics, a Druggist Confronts the Reality of Robbery" for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
	www.angeloink.com /pulitzer.htm (884 words)

	Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
		She was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for coverage of African famine and won the Associated Press Sports Editors National Deadline Writing award for a story from the 1988 Summer Olympics.
		Hull is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, most recently in 2003 for national reporting for "Rim of the New World," her series on second-generation immigrants in the American South.
		Meyer was a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing twice: in 2001 for "When the Shooting Stops" and in 1996 for "Buried Alive." He won a Sigma Delta Chi award for magazine reporting.
	www.nieman.harvard.edu /events/conferences/narrative2003/bios.html (6887 words)

	Authors on the Web -- Author's Summer Reading List -John Sandford
		Camp was born in 1944 and was raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
		In the same year, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for an article he wrote on the Native American communities in Minnesota and North Dakota and their modern day social problems.
		In 1986, Camp won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for a series of articles on the farm crisis in the Midwest.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/summer03/sandford_john.asp (587 words)

	University of Hartford \| The Observer
		A Pulitzer Prize–winning writer for The Baltimore Sun raised concerns about the effects of new technology on the future of print media in a visit to campus on April 18.
		She cited James Agee and E. White as major influences on her writing, influences who may also be responsible for what she termed one of her faults: a tendency to stray in her writing by injecting little pieces of herself.
		Her work at The Baltimore Sun was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1985.
	www.hartford.edu /NewsEvents/ObserverPast/ObserverJune00/CampusNews/SeparatingFact.html (613 words)

	Sandra Mims Rowe, editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Oregonian, to speak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Under Rowe’s leadership, The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in the Northwest, won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 1999, the newspaper’s first Pulitzer since 1957.
		The newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting in 1985.
		Rowe is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, chair of the Knight Foundation Journalism Advisory Board and a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
	www.unc.edu /news/archives/oct01/rowe102501.htm (376 words)

	Enrique's Journey - The Book by Sonia Nazario
		The newspaper series upon which this book is based won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.
		In 1998, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series on children of drug addicted parents.
		Her series on hunger among schoolchildren in California won a 1994 George Polk Award for local reporting—and led to an increase in the number of federally funded school breakfasts issued at public schools in the state.
	www.enriquesjourney.com /author.html (1991 words)

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