That kind of year...

The day the Pulitzers are announced is usually a chance for the staffs of the handful of newspapers still in a position to win such things to pat themselves on the back. But there's always at least one out of nowhere, feel-good surprise. This year, it's editorial page editor Mark Mahoney of the Post-Star in Glens Falls, NY. "This is for all the small newspapers out there that never got to play in the game," said Post-Star editor Ken Tingley. But being 2009, of course one of the winners had already been laid-off from his job late last year. But Paul Giblen and his editor and a few other laid-off staffers from the East Valley Tribune have started their own online news outlet. I hope it works out.