I just read that one of my favorite writers from the Washington Post, Gene Weingarten, has received the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for this excellent article from about a year ago. The article is about an internationally acclaimed violinist, Joshua Bell, who agreed to Gene's plot to don street clothes and play near a DC Metro station escalator to see how many commuters would give him donations. My favorite part of the article is when he describes the actions of the children. I believe this story has received more hits on washingtonpost.com than any other article ever has. Enjoy.
Monday, April 07, 2008
Pulitzer
I just read that one of my favorite writers from the Washington Post, Gene Weingarten, has received the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for this excellent article from about a year ago. The article is about an internationally acclaimed violinist, Joshua Bell, who agreed to Gene's plot to don street clothes and play near a DC Metro station escalator to see how many commuters would give him donations. My favorite part of the article is when he describes the actions of the children. I believe this story has received more hits on washingtonpost.com than any other article ever has. Enjoy.
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Be sure to check out his latest feature-length article. It's vintage Weingarten, but with a definite bitter edge:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802463.html
You may have been the one that forwarded on that article and the video last year - it was sooo fasinating! That is great he got the Pulitzer for it. And wow did the Post do well this year!
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