EgbertoWillies.com

Political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship

  • Home
    • Homepage
    • Login
    • About Us
    • Bio
    • Research
      • BallotPedia
      • Bureau of Labor Statistics
      • CallMyCongress
      • LegiScan
      • OpenSecrets.org
      • Texas Legislature Online
      • US Dept; Of Health & Human Services
      • US Dept. of Labor
      • VoteSmart
    • Contact Us
    • Disclaimer
    • Privacy Policy
  • Shows
    • Live TV
    • Move to Amend Reports
    • Politics Done Right
  • Books
  • Articles
    • AlterNet
    • CNN iReports
    • CommonDreams
    • DailyKos
    • Medium
    • OpEdNews
    • Substack
  • Activism
    • Battleground Texas
    • Coffee Party
    • Move To Amend
    • OccupyMovement
  • Social
    • BlueSky
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Tumblr
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
  • Sections
    • Environment
    • Food And Cooking
    • Health
    • Local News
    • Odd News
    • People Making A Difference
    • Political
    • Reviews
      • Book Reviews
      • Books I Recommend
      • Product Reviews
    • Sports
  • Donate
  • Store

Lisa Falkenberg, Houston Chronicle journalists wins Pulitzer Prize

April 23, 2015 By Egberto Willies

Lisa Falkenberg wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Lisa Falkenberg, Pulitzer Prize, Houston Chronicle
Lisa Falkenberg, Houston Chronicle journalist won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. A Texas Longhorn, she is one of a select few Pulitzer winning University of Texas graduates. Lisa’s columns are always worth reading.

According to Pulitzer,

The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Commentary

For distinguished commentary, using any available journalistic tool, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Awarded to Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle for vividly-written, groundbreaking columns about grand jury abuses that led to a wrongful conviction and other egregious problems in the legal and immigration systems.

Here is the Houston Chronicle’s press release on the PR Newswire

HOUSTON, April 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Houston Chronicle columnist, Lisa Falkenberg, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her impassioned columns on the Alfred Dewayne Brown case and other columns on important social issues including immigration, and voting rights. The Pulitzer board said it honored Falkenberg for “vividly-written, groundbreaking columns about grand jury abuses that led to a wrongful conviction and other egregious problems in the legal and immigration systems.” The Pulitzer is the first in the Houston Chronicle’s 114 year history.

Falkenberg wrote a series of columns on the case of Alfred Dewayne Brown, who was convicted of killing a Houston police officer – a crime he likely did not commit. These columns ran from May through November, 2014, and revealed that the key testimony was tainted because a witness was threated and intimidated by the grand jury and that grand jury was headed by a Houstonpolice officer. After Falkenberg’s reports, a Texas court overturned Brown’s conviction and his death sentence and Brown is currently awaiting his fate as the district attorney decides whether to retry him. In addition, lawmakers introduced legislation to help fix some of the issues in grand jury selection in Texas, and a number of Harris County judges have stopped sealing the names of grand jurors after their term.

“The most important thing for any newsroom is doing journalism that makes a difference in your community, and her work as a columnist has done that. We are absolutely thrilled for Lisa and the newsroom for the Houston Chronicle’s first Pulitzer Prize,” said Nancy Barnes, Houston Chronicle Editor. “Lisa’s relentless pursuit of justice and her powerful storytelling have resulted in a tremendous body of work of which we are so proud.”

Falkenberg was born in Seguin and studied journalism at the University of Texas. She joined The Associated Press’ Dallas bureau in 2001, eventually becoming a regional writer covering Dallas and East Texas. She was named Texas AP Writer of the Year in 2004. She joined the Houston Chronicle’s Austin Bureau in 2005. She moved to Houston in 2007 to be a Houston Chronicle metro columnist. Falkenberg was also the ASNE’s 2015 winner of the Mike Royko award for commentary/column writing, and was a finalist in 2014 for the Pulitzer commentary category.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon
  • Click to share on Nextdoor (Opens in new window) Nextdoor
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram

Like this:

Like Loading...

Viewers are encouraged to subscribe and join the conversation for more insightful commentary and to support progressive messages. Together, we can populate the internet with progressive messages that represent the true aspirations of most Americans.

Support Our Politics Done Right Store

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Houston Chronicle, Lisa Falkenberg, Pulitzer Prize

About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • X
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • LinkedIn

Support Independent Media

Support Politics Done Right on PayPal

Politic Done Right

RevContent


Support Independent Media



RSS Feed

  • RSS - Posts
Mastodon
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d