[1]Meet the journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in
class
On Monday afternoon, Mariel Padilla, a master's student at Columbia
Journalism School, sat around a table with classmates, listening to
Professor Giannina Segnini lead a discussion about email encryption
for reporting across borders．A couple floors below, journalism
bigwigs and other members of the press crowded into the World Room,
an ornate, high-ceilinged chamber reserved for the event, eager to
watch Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy announce this year's
winners. For Padilla, who moved to New York last year from the small
town of Oxford, Ohio, just being in geographic proximity to the
announcement was a thrill.
"I knew I was going to be two floors above where it was happening,"
she says, reflecting on the moment, "and I remember thinking, Oh,
that's cool, I can tell people that I was in the same building
[where] the Pulitzers are being announced!"
Little did she know she was about to become a Pulitzer winner
herself.
(Via Columbia Journalism Review)
What a story. 23 years old, only in journalism for about 2 years, and
she lands a Pulitzer.
Read the whole story to learn more. I am jealous.
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