Lookout Santa Cruz Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Its Storm Coverage

Alexis Madrigal

May 8 at

Save Article

Failed to save article

Please try again

Lookout Santa Cruz staffers react Monday after winning the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage. (Kevin Painchaud via Lookout Santa Cruz)

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting was awarded to the staff of Lookout Santa Cruz on Monday. The prize committee praised the tiny, digital-only media outlet for its “detailed and nimble community-focused coverage” of the catastrophic flooding and mudslides last year that did great damage to the Santa Cruz area. We’ll talk to the staff about the media outlet, which was founded in 2020, its coverage, and the future of local journalism.

Guests:

Ken Doctor, CEO and founder, Lookout Santa Cruz. Doctor writes regularly for Harvard's Nieman Journalism

Tamsin McMahon, managing editor, Lookout Santa Cruz

Christopher Neely, correspondent, Lookout Santa Cruz

Sponsored

lower waypoint

next waypoint

Dutch Research Team Recounts the Long-Term Effects of Starvation The Long Troubled History of US Immigration Detention and the Case for Ending It 'A Chance to Harmonize' Tells the Story of the U.S. Music Unit Here’s What to Do in the Bay Area This Summer California’s Budget Deficit is $45 Billion. What's Newsom's Plan to Fix It?Doing Democracy: Trump’s Rhetoric Raises Fears of an Authoritarian Second Term Tiffany Haddish Wants to ‘Curse You With Joy’Carvell Wallace Journeys Through Loss and Reunion in Memoir ‘Another Word for Love’In Transit: Amtrak's Future In California Can Fashion Be Sustainable?