Food critic Jonathan Gold of our sister paper LA Weekly has won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, it was announced today.
The Pulitzer Board noted Gold's “zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater.”
The two other excellent nominees were both from the Los Angeles Times.
Congratulations to Jonathan for earning this news organization's FOURTH Pulitzer Prize.
(The Orange County Register has won three.)
In 2000, Mark Schoofs of the Village Voice–another sister paper to OC Weekly–defeated the Washington Post and the Associated Press to win the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
In 1986, the Village Voice's Jules Feiffer won for cartooning and in 1981 the paper's Teresa Carpenter won for feature writing.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.