Three female critics nominated for Pulitzer prize
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Version 0 of 1. LA Times writer Mary McNamara has won the Pulitzer prize for criticism. The prize, which carries a reward of $10,000, is designed to promote the best of newspaper and online arts writing. McNamara, the Times’s television critic and cultural editor, had been nominated the past two years for the prize. The judges praised her “savvy criticism … that uses shrewdness, humour and an insider’s view to show how both subtle and seismic shifts in the cultural landscape affect television”. McNamara’s fellow finalists this year were film critics Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice and Manohla Dargis of the New York Times. It’s the second year in a row that all of the prize’s nominees have been women. Starting as a features writer and editor at the Times in 1991, McNamara became the paper’s television critic six years ago. Her writing explores the culture shifts tied to the TV industry, with the Pulitzer panel citing her work on sexism on screen as a particular highlight. First awarded in 1917, the Pulitzer prize is the brainchild of publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who bequeathed a fund to Columbia University for the promotion of good journalism. The Guardian was awarded the Pulitzer for public service journalism last year for its work on the NSA files. |