Tiny newspaper in US wins Pulitzer prize for taking on big business...

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Tiny newspaper in US wins Pulitzer prize for taking on big business

Art Cullen of 3,000-circulation Storm Lake Times awarded global prize for editorials challenging powerful interests in Iowa A number of important local stories were leading the website of the Storm Lake Times, circulation 3,000, on Tuesday morning. Second-grader Alejandra Gonzales found a four-leaf clover in the field behind her school. A local woman had bought and renovated a building to house 25 elderly cats. And in a modest announcement of just a sentence, another notable local happening: on Monday, Art Cullen, the paper's owner and editor, was awarded a Pulitzer prize, the most prestigious award in global journalism, for his editorial writing. Fellow honorees for 2017 include the rather better read New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Miami Herald. Continue reading...


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