The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board on Tuesday won a Pulitzer Prize in editorial...
The top honor was awarded to writers Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco. Mostly published in a series called,"The Big Lie," their winning work examined and debunked GOP-driven falsehoods about voter fraud that have persisted for decades.
This is the Chronicle’s — and Falkenberg's — second Pulitzer. She won the newspaper's first prize in 2015 for commentary. The team published"The Big Lie" in 2021 as the heavily Republican Texas Legislature considered bills to restrict voting statewide, including by limiting hours, letting partisans film voters they find suspicious, and banning certain innovations that helped increase turnout in blue Harris County such as drive-thru voting. Gov. Greg Abbott eventually signed a version into law over fierce opposition from Texas Democrats.
Two additional editorials, which preceded the series, were submitted for the award and contributed to the win. In those, the board voiced outrage at Cruz and other Texas Republicans for their actions leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol."We are so incredibly proud of the work our editorial department has done to illuminate the pressing issues of our community and state," Reeve said.
Lindenberger, a Kentucky native, is the newspaper’s deputy opinion editor. He joined the Chronicle in 2018 after 14 years at the Dallas Morning News and prior writing and editing positions at The Courier-Journal in Kentucky. Lindenberger is also a teacher, public speaker and graduate of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.
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