Lookout Santa Cruz won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting...its detailed and nimble community-focused coverage, over a holiday weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of California residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses.
It's an incredible day. I think we are one of the youngest, if not the youngest, news organizations to win a prize like this...how that team met the moment when they needed to, in a moment of community crisis.
And we realized...if anybody was going to respond to the community's needs for news and information, it had to be us...felt both the responsibility and, I'd say, the burden of it - of getting every piece of information we could.
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