The Art of Winning a Pulitzer

The Art of Winning a Pulitzer

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Northwestern Iowa’s Storm Lake Times is a twice-weekly county newspaper with a circulation of 3,330. It has a staff of about 10, including the recipes editor. Its top advertiser is “Builders Sharpening and Service.” And it just…won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, taking on three sets of county commissioners and Big Agriculture in one fell swoop. Bob speaks with Art Cullen, editor and co-owner of the paper, about the editorials that won him the award — and what its like to argue for progressive aims in a bastion of conservatism.