POLITICO's Matt Wuerker wins Pulitzer Prize
POLITICO’s Matt Wuerker has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
The board gave the prestigious journalistic award to Wuerker — POLITICO’s editorial cartoonist and illustrator since the launch of the publication — for “his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington,” according to the announcement on Monday.
Continue ReadingThis is the first Pulitzer for POLITICO, which recently marked its fifth year of publication.
(PHOTOS: Wuerker’s award-winning cartoons)
Other 2012 winners include: The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News’s Sara Ganim and other staffers in local reporting for breaking the Penn State sexual abuse scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky; The Associated Press’s Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley in investigative reporting for their work on the clandestine New York Police Department program that spied on Muslims; and The Seattle Times’ Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong for “their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings.”
On Monday afternoon, POLITICO President and CEO Frederick Ryan, Chief Operating Officer Kim Kingsley, publisher Robert Allbritton, Executive Editor Jim VandeHei, who is a member of the Pulitzer board, and editor-in-chief John Harris congratulated Wuerker in front of hundreds of POLITICO employees in the Arlington, Va., newsroom.
“I can’t think of anybody more deserving than Matt,” Allbritton said to applause.
He noted that he had spoken to his father, 87-year-old Joseph Allbritton, the previous evening. “I asked him, ‘You were publisher of The Washington Star from ’76 to ’79?’ I said, ‘Did you guys ever win one of these things?’ He said, ‘Yeah, actually, we did. Pat Oliphant, he was a cartoonist!’ So thank you Matt, for keeping this family tradition going.”
Harris said Wuerker’s award is “truly one for the good guys.”
“I don’t think there is any better example of nice guys finishing first in our newsroom than this award for Matt,” Harris said. “He’s just, as everybody knows, one of the best, nicest, most dedicated, conscientious person in the newsroom, and we really, really appreciate what you have done for us both in winning this award but far more in helping us build a publication.”
Harris also called Wuerker “emblematic of the spirit of POLITICO. He knows that politics is serious stuff … but he also knows that covering politics and telling the story of politics should be a hell of a lot of fun. Nobody’s having more fun in this business than Matt Wuerker.”
For his part, Wuerker, 55, said it’s been a “wild, wild ride.”
“I can’t thank everybody enough — Jim and John in particular for all of the creative license that they’ve given me,” he said. “I feel like a piccolo player and I’m in this great big orchestra and as a piccolo player, if I’m just out there playing my piccolo, I’m just this annoying guy with this little instrument in the corner. But I’ve had the great, great fortune of finding myself in this great orchestra with major players and fabulous conductors and a fabulous concert hall and that’s what this is about. So I share this with all of you.”
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Read all 21 comments in our forumcongrats to the artist!
Yes, this is surprising, especially, if you consider he is known “for his consistently fresh, funny cartoons”, which are 99.9% partisan….I think you all know which part….
Congratulations for a well deserved award!
Takes an artistic genius to covert the Democrat talking point of the day and make a lousy drawing of it.
Congratulations, Matt! I always look forward to your newest cartoons.
Cheers from Italy!
Congratulations.
Great, another liberal shill wins the prize.
Congratulations, Matt.! I always enjoy seeing who you are roasting on any given day.
Matt, great work. But you really need to go after the Right more. They get a free pass on everything and do nothing but cry about it when they're asked legit questions.
Thanks.
That cartoon IS funny! Calling the Egyptian uprising a "democracy" movement is CLASSIC!
Big deal Bill O’Riley has won the Pulitzer, or he thinks he has.
The Pulitzer, the Nobel, the Booker prize, the US academy awards, the French Palm d' or, etc, all these honors are reserved for liberals and leftists exclusively. Anybody who writes something denouncing America, capitalism, white people, Christianity, Israel, free speech, the republican party, colonialism, "racism", "globalism", etc is eligible.
People in any creative field, who are believers in any religion except Islam, those who believe in Capitalism, private property, those who defend western civilization and culture, those who defend white people, those who defend business and enterprise, those people are not eligible to recieve those prizes.
The entire world of prizes recognizing accomplishment is owned lock, stock and barrel by the international white-hating, Christian-hating, Capitalism-hating left. Yassir Arafat, the pistol-toting murderer of Israeli children, won a nobel. Rigoberta Menchu, a totally phony Guatemalan "Indian" who falsely claimed that her entire family had been slaughtered by the army, won a Nobel. A pathetic sleazy homosexual british "playwright" Harold Pintor, won a nobel, or a Booker, I forget which.
And of course our own beloved little boy Barack won a nobel prize for being..................Black.
What?!?! A liberal cartoonist won? Shocking...........
The Pulitzer, the Nobel, the Booker prize, the US academy awards, the French Palm d' or, etc, all these honors are reserved for liberals and leftists exclusively. Anybody who writes something denouncing America, capitalism, white people, Christianity, Israel, free speech, the republican party, colonialism, "racism", "globalism", etc is eligible.
People in any creative field, who are believers in any religion except Islam, those who believe in Capitalism, private property, those who defend western civilization and culture, those who defend white people, those who defend business and enterprise, those people are not eligible to recieve those prizes.
The entire world of prizes recognizing accomplishment is owned lock, stock and barrel by the international white-hating, Christian-hating, Capitalism-hating left. Yassir Arafat, the pistol-toting murderer of Israeli children, won a nobel. Rigoberta Menchu, a totally phony Guatemalan "Indian" who falsely claimed that her entire family had been slaughtered by the army, won a Nobel. A pathetic sleazy homosexual british "playwright" Harold Pintor, won a nobel, or a Booker, I forget which.
And of course our own beloved little boy Barack won a nobel prize for being..................Black.
PARANOID LOSER
A resume enhancer for sure and best wishes to Matt. What makes this amusing is the award has value and meaning within the Beltway and among the media which is fine. Some loose change will get Matt a ride on the Metro with his award. For the average Joe Sixpack cursing at the pump as he fills his pick up truck, Matt is of no interest or consequence in his life because he is a million mental miles away from the wacky world of Pulitzers....and just trying to survive.
Another liberal cartoonist, wins another liberal prize, from another liberal organization, big deal!!
Fine - Obama won the Nobel prize.
You will see more and more of these flaming libs winning awards in the next couple of months...because November is coming. I'm getting my President Romney Nobel nomination ready...isn't the standard winning nomination due 9 days after inauguration?
"Pulitzer Prize" LOL.
There is little wonder as to why Liberals and Leftists so predictably love the Liberal back slapping and self-adulation of this hilarious Left Wing Love Fest routine that they pull every year.
But study up on who administers the prize.
Columbia University.
Then study up on the connections of Columbia to the Frankfurt School, the Left's bastion of Neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory.
Then study up on "Critical Theory" of the neo-Marxist variant.
Yes - there is a REASON the Left loves the scam of the Pulitzer Prize just as they love the scam of the "Nobel Peace Prize" and the scam of "Global Warming" aka "AGW".
No Dems, sorry. When your entire system is SO utterly CORRUPT and BIAS. So tied to the Left wing, you will never get anything but scorn and ridicule and the truth cast on you whenever you do your little back slapping dog and pony show routine of Left Wing Glad Handing.
You Leftists can moan and complain that the rest of the critically thinking world doesn't buy your propaganda program all you want.
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