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Published: 01/22/10

National Enquirer Continues Campaign for Pulitzer Prize Despite Pushback

By  Emily Miller - Politics Daily
National Enquirer Continues Campaign for Pulitzer Prize Despite Pushback

National Enquirer Editor Barry Levine said Friday that he is still going to nominate his reporters for a Pulitzer Prize, despite the Pulitzer committee chair's pre-emptive strike to try to stop the process. The prize administrator, Sig Gissler, said that the National Enquirer is ineligible because it's considered a magazine and because most of the reporting on the John Edwards affair and cover-up was before 2009, according to ABC News. After hearing of Gissler's comments before the Enquirer had submitted forms for the nomination, which are due Feb. 1, Levine told me that the Pulitzer ...

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