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Lyme Journal Series Up For a Pulitzer?
The Poughkeepsie Journal’s (NY) investigative series about Lyme and tick-borne diseases, “No Small Thing”, will be submitted for a Pulitzer Prize. Email reporter Mary Beth Pfeiffer, [email protected], saying why this series is so important and why you feel it deserves a Pulitzer.
The Poughkeepsie Journal’s (NY) investigative series about Lyme and tick-borne diseases, “No Small Thing”, will be submitted for a Pulitzer Prize.
Reporter Mary Beth Pfeiffer interviewed some of the most notable experts in the field of Lyme and tick-borne diseases to present sometimes divergent viewpoints. A total of 13 articles, 8 videos and 1 chat room session beginning in August 2012 is the most comprehensible series a newspaper has taken on.
LDA suggests you read the series and email reporter Mary Beth Pfeiffer, saying why this series is important and why you feel it deserves a Pulitzer. (Please put Pulitzer in subject line)
Email: [email protected]
You can also keep up with Mary Beth Pfeiffer at
Twitter: @marybethpf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marybethpf?fref=ts
Blog by: Lymedisease.org / Touched by Lyme
NO SMALL THING: Could Pulitzer be in store for newspaper Lyme series?
The Poughkeepsie Journal’s Lyme series will be submitted for a Pulitzer Prize. Your comments could help.
In August 2012, New York state’s Poughkeepsie Journal began an on-going series of articles about Lyme disease called “No Small Thing,” by investigative journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer. It is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject ever undertaken by a newspaper.
The reporter delved into such complex and controversial topics as how Lyme disease cases are officially counted (and NOT counted); how difficult it is for Lyme patients to get properly diagnosed and effectively treated; how some doctors who treat Lyme disease are being targeted by medical authorities; how and why testing for Lyme disease is so problematic; how and why medical guidelines regarding Lyme treatment are profoundly flawed; how tick-borne Babesiosis (which can accompany Lyme and complicate its treatment) endangers the nation’s blood supply.
In addition to a series of eight long, meticulously detailed articles, the Poughkeepsie Journal’s website also provides video excerpts of interviews, photos and graphic illustrations, and external links for more information. It is a remarkable body of work and a huge contribution to the understanding of Lyme disease. It should be required reading by health professionals, lawmakers and Lyme patients. And dare I say it? By the Pulitzer Prize Committee, which will take nominations this month. (To my readers in other countries: the Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious award for American newspaper journalists.)
The Poughkeepsie Journal will submit “No Small Thing” for Pulitzer consideration in the next few weeks. You can help matters by sending a brief note to the paper saying why you feel this series is so important and why you feel it deserves a Pulitzer. The Journal may include excerpts of your letters in its submission to the committee. Keep it short, email it to [email protected], and put “Pulitzer” in the subject line.
Do it now. Winning a Pulitzer Prize would considerably amplify the reach of this important Lyme series. That would be no small thing, indeed.
Click here to read the entire series.
TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, LymeDisease.org’s VP for education and outreach. Contact her at [email protected].
Click here for The Poughkeepsie Journal’s Lyme Disease Investigative Journalism Series
The Journal’s videos are embedded below. They can also be found in Eye on Lyme section at above link halfway down the page on right hand side.
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