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ABC News Gets Slapped Down After Demanding Pulitzer Credit
ABC News is calling on the Center for Public Integrity to share its Pulitzer, but CPI and the Pulitzer Prize Committee don't seem to be having any of it.
For those life forms that subsist on schadenfreude, this could be the feast of all feasts:
An internal feud between ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity spilled into the open Wednesday with the two organizations going to war over credit for the investigative series that won a Pulitzer Prize this week.
Chris Hamby of CPI, a Washington, D.C., non-profit investigative journalism outfit, won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for his investigation into coal miners who were denied black lung benefits. The very next day, ABC News President Ben Sherwood sent a letter to the executive director of CPI, asking that the names of two ABC News reporters be added to the award.
ABC News aired various reports on the subject in collaboration with CPI. "We believe that our reporters ... should share in this high honor as they shared in the long months of reporting and producing the stories," Sherwood wrote in the letter to CPI executive director Bill Buzenberg, which was first reported by Politico.
Buzenberg responded that “ABC is seeking to take credit for a large body of work that it did not produce," according to Politico. Soon after, a second ABC News executive, Jeffrey Schneider, called CPI's presentation of the facts "an outrageous lie."
Chris Hamby of CPI, a Washington, D.C., non-profit investigative journalism outfit, won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for his investigation into coal miners who were denied black lung benefits. The very next day, ABC News President Ben Sherwood sent a letter to the executive director of CPI, asking that the names of two ABC News reporters be added to the award.
ABC News aired various reports on the subject in collaboration with CPI. "We believe that our reporters ... should share in this high honor as they shared in the long months of reporting and producing the stories," Sherwood wrote in the letter to CPI executive director Bill Buzenberg, which was first reported by Politico.
Buzenberg responded that “ABC is seeking to take credit for a large body of work that it did not produce," according to Politico. Soon after, a second ABC News executive, Jeffrey Schneider, called CPI's presentation of the facts "an outrageous lie."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/04/abc-news-says-center-for-public-integrity-misled-pulitzer-186945.html
Later in the letter, Buzenberg effectively warned ABC News to leave the matter alone or be exposed.
"The Center is prepared to show in great detail how little ABC’s Brian Ross and Matt Mosk understood about even the most fundamental concepts and key facts and how they repeatedly turned to Chris to advise them or, in some instances, to do their work for them," he wrote.
"The Center is prepared to show in great detail how little ABC’s Brian Ross and Matt Mosk understood about even the most fundamental concepts and key facts and how they repeatedly turned to Chris to advise them or, in some instances, to do their work for them," he wrote.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/abc-news-center-for-public-intergrity-pulitzer-credit
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schadenfreude served here:
Bill: I've reviewed the entry again. It is overwhelmingly Hamby's work and was entered by the center in conformance with our rules on limited partnerships (SEE BELOW). The rules expressly state that the eligible entity must do the preponderance of the work; specific elements produced by the ineligible entity (such as ABC video) cannot be entered; and if there is a prize it will go ONLY to the eligible organization that submitted the work.
So, based on the entry, the prize to the Hamby alone is warranted.
Best, SG
So, based on the entry, the prize to the Hamby alone is warranted.
Best, SG
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/16/abc-news-center-integrity-pulitzer-response_n_5160429.html
LETTER HERE:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/abc-news-asking-center-for-public-integrity-to-share-pulitzer-prize_b221733
REBUTTAL HERE:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/04/16/14596/center-public-integritys-response-abc-news
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