{"id":5830,"date":"2012-04-17T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:34:23","slug":"burlington-free-press-a-pulitzer-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/04\/17\/burlington-free-press-a-pulitzer-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington Free Press a Pulitzer finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5833\" title=\"freepresscv\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/freepresscv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/freepresscv.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/freepresscv-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The Burlington Free Press has been named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in the editorial writing category.<\/p>\n<p>Editorial page editor Aki Soga and Executive Editor Michael Townshend were recognized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/citation\/2012-Editorial-Writing\">Pulitzer Prizes website<\/a> for \u201ctheir campaign that resulted in the state\u2019s first reform of open government in 35 years, reducing legal obstacles that helped shroud the work of government officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soga and Townshend have written extensively about public records reform and in 2010 won the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for their editorial campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The other two finalists in the editorial writing category were the Tampa Bay Times and Bloomberg News. No winner was chosen among them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burlington Free Press has been named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}