SOC alum on Pulitzer Prize Team

SOURCE: NABJ.org Keith Alexander, left, Wesley Lowery and Farah Stockman

School of C alumnus Keith Alexander wins Pulitzer

NABJ Congratulates 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) congratulates members Keith Alexander, Wesley Lowery, and Farah Stockman for winning the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's most prestigious award.
     The Washington Post staff took the award for National Reporting, for creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely to be. Alexander and Lowery were both part of the team coverage.
     Spurred by Lowery's proposal, the project grew into one of the largest in the newsroom's history, said Cameron Barr, The Post's managing editor for news. It eventually involved some 70 journalists from the paper's national, investigative, metro, video, photo and graphics departments.

The Washington Post staff coverage can be found here. 

    Former Boston Globe opinion writer Farah Stockman won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for a Boston Globe opinion series examining race and education in Boston after busing. 

  "NABJ applauds Keith, Wesley and Farah for their meritorious journalism in 2015. They are three excellent journalists most worthy of this high honor," NABJ President Sarah Glover said. "The Post's project on why police officers shoot to kill and Stockman's columns on Boston's legacy of busing embody the kind of comprehensive and vital coverage that newsrooms should be striving for. NABJ also congratulates all of the 2016 winners."

This year marks the 100th year of the contest. The prizes were announced Monday afternoon at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

SOURCE: This reported edited from  NABJ Communications at nabj@nabj.ccsend.com and The Washington Post contributed to this report.