{"id":7399,"date":"2016-04-20T11:12:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2016-04-20T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:55:51","slug":"three-com-alumni-snag-pulitzer-prizes","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/three-com-alumni-snag-pulitzer-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Three COM alumni snag Pulitzer Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7400\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2016\/04\/tylerhicks.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Hicks (\u201992) captured desperate migrants wading ashore in Lesbos, Greece, as part of a New York Times Pulitzer-winning package. Photo by Tyler Hicks, New York Times\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Hicks (\u201992) captured desperate migrants wading ashore in Lesbos, Greece, as part of a New York Times Pulitzer-winning package. Photo by Tyler Hicks, New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Monday was a good day for three COM alumni, who took each home the most celebrated award in journalism \u2014 the Pulitzer prize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Rinaldi (\u201901)<\/strong> of the <em>Boston Globe<\/em> won the feature photography prize for \u201cThe Life and Times of Strider Wolf,\u201d a kindergartner born to poverty in rural Maine and nearly beaten to death at age two by his mother\u2019s boyfriend. Strider\u2019s grandparents took him in, but wound up homeless while caring for him and his brother, forcing the family to move from one campsite to another. Rinaldi\u2019s three dozen photographs accompanied the story by Globe reporter Sarah Schweitzer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyler Hicks (\u201992)<\/strong> of the <em>New York Times<\/em> worked on a Times\u2013Thomson Reuters team that won for breaking news photography. His image of migrants wading ashore on the island of Lesbos, Greece, was part of a searing package depicting the ongoing crisis of refugees fleeing to, and awaiting help in, Europe. It was the third Pulitzer for Hicks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kimbriell Kelly (\u201998)<\/strong> shared a byline in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> series that explored killings by police officers in 2015. The idea began when the paper discovered that no official database for fatal shootings of civilians by officers exists; 70 staffers from multiple departments assembled the database and compiled stories, photos, data, graphics, and videos about trends revealed by the information. The Post has continued to update its database during 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe in COM couldn\u2019t be more proud of the work done in the past year by Tyler, Jessica, and Kimbriell,\u201d says <strong>Thomas Fiedler<\/strong>, dean of COM. \u201cThey also honor us with their achievement, because there is no greater compliment to\u2014or endorsement for\u2014any journalism program than for Pulitzer Prizes to be awarded to its graduates.\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2016\/tyler-hicks-kimbriell-kelly-jessica-rinaldi-win-pulitzer-prizes\/\" class=\"button bg-green\">Read more on BU Today<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was a good day for three COM alumni, who took each home the most celebrated award in journalism \u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[962,3,2],"tags":[53,1112,6,1116,200,1113,466,1114,899,1115,513],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/7399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/7399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7429,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/7399\/revisions\/7429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}