Sun’s Pulitzer-winning journalism was part of bigger vision
April 27, 2009
Many baseball players dream of hitting a walk-off home run to win the World Series. Some doctors dream of curing cancer. And my guess is there are at least few journalists who dream of winning a Pulitzer Prize.
Certainly journalists at the Las Vegas Sun shared those dreams, though they wouldn’t dare whisper it.
Those dreams were realized last week when it was announced that the Sun’s amazing investigative journalism into the construction deaths on the Las Vegas Strip had earned the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
But what made the award even more significant to me was that it …