An Evening with Bob Woodward - Interview from the LBJ Library Oct. 1, 2020

[TechTalk]

"On October 1, 2020, the LBJ Presidential Library, the Harry Ransom Center, and the School of Journalism and Media at The University of Texas at Austin hosted a conversation with bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward, who discussed his explosive new book Rage, the balance between journalism and history, and his nearly 50-year career covering nine presidents. The conversation is moderated by Mark K. Updegrove, President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation."

https://www.youtube.com/An Evening With Bob Woodward

The video is about 42-minutes long. At about the 29 minute mark he discusses his fears regarding election day and what will follow in the days after.

[John Camp]

"On October 1, 2020, the LBJ Presidential Library, the Harry Ransom Center, and the School of Journalism and Media at The University of Texas at Austin hosted a conversation with bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward, who discussed his explosive new book Rage, the balance between journalism and history, and his nearly 50-year career covering nine presidents. The conversation is moderated by Mark K. Updegrove, President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation."

https://www.youtube.com/An Evening With Bob Woodward

The video is about 42-minutes long. At about the 29 minute mark he discusses his fears regarding election day and what will follow in the days after.

Woodward is indeed a best-selling author, but not yet a Pulitzer winner in the usual sense. He worked on stories that won Pulitzers for the Washington Post (with several, or many, other reporters) but if you look for his name in a list of Pulitzer winners, you won't find it.

[TechTalk]

The quoted remarks referencing the Pulitzer Prize are from the description given by the poster (LBJ Library) of the YouTube interview with Woodward. I personally don't think that the distinction being drawn in the Pulitzer award is very important; but since you raised it, here's the information that I found.

The 1973 Pulitzer for Public Service was given to the Washington Post based on the cited "Winning Work" of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The Pulitzer Prize Board website FAQ states that "The Public Service Prize is always awarded to a news organization, not an individual, although an individual may be named in the citation."

So, the publisher received the award for the cited work of the journalists in 1973. The Washington Post considers that award to be shared by Woodward and Bernstein and presented to them as the publisher of their "winning work" cited by the Pulitzer board in the award. Folks can feel free to decide for themselves how finely they want to split that particular hair.

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/washington-post

The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting was awarded in 2002 to "The Staff of the Washington Post" for a series of eleven articles cited as the "Winning Work" for the award. Bob Woodward was the sole author of four of the cited articles and coauthor on three others. As the lead reporter (as cited by the Washington Post) for the cited series and as part of the staff to which the award was given, I think most would consider that to mean he was a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize. Others may come to a differing opinion.

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff washinton post 2002 national reporting

FAQ #21 and #23 https://www.pulitzer.org/page/frequently-asked-questions

From the Washington Post Bio Page: "Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1973 for the coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks."

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/bob-woodward

[TechTalk]

Woodward is indeed a best-selling author, but not yet a Pulitzer winner in the usual sense. He worked on stories that won Pulitzers for the Washington Post (with several, or many, other reporters) but if you look for his name in a list of Pulitzer winners, you won't find it.

What did you think of the interview? Did you find it interesting or worth watching?

[John Camp]

What did you think of the interview? Did you find it interesting or worth watching?

Didn't watch it. I don't know if I will. He's always seemed unduly portentous to me, and as a former newspaper reporter, I had a rather large problem with his work on the book 'Veil.' I don't care if he wishes to represent himself as a Pulitzer winner, but people in that situation usually don't -- if they did, there'd be literally thousands more Pulitzer winners wandering around newsrooms. My definition of a Pulitzer winner is a person who got a check from the Pulitzer board.

[Chris Kern]

Woodward is indeed a best-selling author, but not yet a Pulitzer winner in the usual sense. He worked on stories that won Pulitzers for the Washington Post (with several, or many, other reporters) but if you look for his name in a list of Pulitzer winners, you won't find it.

For those of you who aren't already aware of it, we happen to have a Pulitzer Prize winner in our midst.

[Woodward has] always seemed unduly portentous to me . . .

Not an unfair characterization, but you have to admire the guy's ability to extract information from his sources.  And persuading Trump to speak on-the-record, and to allow Woodward to record their conversations, was a remarkable coup.  Presumably (at least as far as we know) Trump wasn't hopped up on steroids back then.

[John Camp]

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Not an unfair characterization, but you have to admire the guy's ability to extract information from his sources.  And persuading Trump to speak on-the-record, and to allow Woodward to record their conversations, was a remarkable coup.  Presumably (at least as far as we know) Trump wasn't hopped up on steroids back then.

I thought the Trump book was brilliant, and why I said in my first reply to tech talk was that Woodward was not YET a usual Pulitzer winner. He may yet win one for that book...