{"id":19515,"date":"2010-04-20T15:06:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=19515"},"modified":"2013-12-16T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T18:15:54","slug":"nau-grad-leads-team-to-pulitzer-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-grad-leads-team-to-pulitzer-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU grad leads team to Pulitzer Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former\u00a0<em>Lumberjack<\/em>\u00a0reporter and Northern Arizona University alumna was one of the directors for a team of reporters that won\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/latestnews\/stories\/041310dnedipulitzer.23ece1daf.html\">a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keven Ann Willey<\/strong>, vice president and editorial page editor of\u00a0<em>The Dallas Morning News<\/em>\u00a0and 1980 graduate of NAU, along with deputy editorial page editor Sharon Grigsby, directed a three-person team who won a Pulitzer for its &#8220;relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city\u2019s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Named as award winners were editorial writers Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson and William McKenzie.<\/p>\n<p>Willey said the editorial team was able to \u201capply sustained attention to a very complex social issue,\u201d something that happens too rarely in daily newspaper work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith things that don\u2019t change quickly, sometimes we lose focus,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Adapted from the\u00a0<em>Dallas Morning News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-grad-leads-team-to-pulitzer-prize\/\">A former\u00a0Lumberjack\u00a0reporter and Northern Arizona University alumna was one of the directors for a team of reporters that won\u00a0a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Keven Ann Willey, vice president and editorial page editor of\u00a0The Dallas Morning News\u00a0and 1980 graduate of NAU, along with deputy editorial page editor Sharon Grigsby, directed a three-person team who&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":19516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}