By Paul Cox
April 21, 2009, 5:25AMStar-Ledger reporter Amy Ellis Nutt Monday was recognized as a finalist for the 2009 Pultitzer Prize for feature writing for “Jon Sarkin: The Accidental Artist,” a December 2008 report about a stroke victim who then became an artist.
The Pulitzer judges commended Nutt “for her poignant, deeply reported story of a chiropractor who suffered a severe stroke following brain surgery and became a wildly creative artist, in many ways estranged from his former self.”
The Pulitzer winner in feature writing was Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times for coverage of a neglected girl and her adoption.
The New York Times won five awards, including one for being the first to report that then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer was paying thousands of dollars for high-priced prostitutes. The story led to his stunning resignation. And the Detroit Free Press won a Pulitzer for obtaining a cache of steamy text messages that destroyed then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s political career.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/feature_writing_lane_degregory.html
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