Pulitzer Prizes
A Pulitzer for the Climate
Inside Climate News, a small online non-profit devoted to covering the changing climate, just picked up the most prestigious prize in journalism. Three Inside Climate reporters took home the National Reporting Pulitzer for their coverage of pipeline spills and the hazards of tar sands oil.
Junot Diaz: Literary Growing Pains
He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but Junot Diaz tells Kurt that many of the students he teaches at MIT don’t even know that he’s a writer. And he likes it that way. “If you want people just to like you,” says Diaz, “there’s a thousand other […]