RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: List of 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners

Monday, April 16, 2012

2012 Pulitzer Prize winners for Journalism announced

The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Awards for Journalism have been announced; No one from California has been selected; Just wait till next year! Los Cerritos Community Newspaper is going to make a splash, mark my word on this one. Anyway, congrats to all the winners!

JOURNALISM

Craig Walker Photograph

Public Service: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Breaking News Reporting: The Tuscaloosa News staff

Investigative Reporting: Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of the Associated Press and Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times

Explanatory Reporting: David Kocieniewski of The New York Times

Local Reporting: Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News staff, Harrisburg, Pa.

National Reporting: David Wood of The Huffington Post

International Reporting: Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times

Feature Writing: Eli Sanders of The Stranger, a Seattle weekly

Commentary: Mary Schmich of The Chicago Tribune

Criticism: Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe

Editorial Writing: No award

Editorial Cartooning: Matt Wuerker of POLITICO

Breaking News Photography: Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse

Feature Photography: Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post

Meet Randy Economy

You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”

Monday, April 16, 2012

2012 Pulitzer Prize winners for Journalism announced

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