Introducing: Pulitzer on the Road S2

Classy with Jonathan Menjivar

Pineapple Street Studios

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

The Pulitzer on the Road podcast is back for season two! What does it take to win a Pulitzer Prize? In each episode, we’ll hear winners in conversation with one another, sharing stories behind their prize-winning work. This packed season features conversations between historians Vladimir Kara-Murza and Anne Applebaum, novelists Jayne Anne Phillips and Viet Thanh Nguyen, playwrights Sanaz Toossi and Lynn Nottage, critics Justin Chang and Joe Morgenstern, biographer Jonathan Eig and journalist Yohance Lacour, investigative reporter Hannah Dreier and photo-journalists Greg Bull and Ivan Valencia, and critic Salamishah Tillet talking with journalists Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler. The first episode is out now! Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Each spring, 23 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for distinguished journalism, books, drama, and music.
0:08.0	They announced my name and everybody started clapping.
0:11.0	I like jumped off the couch screaming.
0:13.0	We cried. It was ugly cry.
0:15.0	I could never have imagined having my name and the word Pulitzer in the same sentence.
0:19.0	It was disbelief and joy and pride
0:23.6	and humbling and redemptive and life-changing.
0:28.6	My name is Nicole Carroll, and my life also changed
0:32.6	after my team at the Arizona Republic and the USA Today Network
0:36.6	won the 2018 Pulitzer for explanatory reporting.
0:40.7	Shortly after, I was invited to join the Pulitzer Board, and since then, I've had the honor
0:45.9	of participating in the rigorous process of selecting the winners. As the official podcast of the
0:51.8	Pulitzer Prizes, Pulitzer on the Road brings many of those winners to you.
0:56.9	In each episode, they reveal how much labor and risk, heart, and imagination go into creating their prize-winning work.
1:05.4	And we'll also hear about the impact their work has on people's daily lives.
1:09.9	Some of the most important reader mail I've gotten with this series has been from people
1:14.4	who say, I don't support illegal immigration or I don't like immigrants, but I really felt
1:19.9	for the kid in your story or I really do want these kids to get more help.
1:24.6	We'll talk with novelists and reporters.
1:27.2	Because human beings are narrative creatures, literature can reach them.
1:32.3	We found stuff that no one had heard before found out.
1:34.3	It was exciting.
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