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There were three journalists from the Seattle Times He was named the Pulitzer Prize finalist Monday for their work to uncover the shortcomings of Washington’s Salmon Recovery Program.
Reporters Mike Reicher and Linda Mapes and graphic artist Fiona Martin received an honorable nod in the Local Report category of the Times Tunnel Vision Series.
The storyline of the series included why Washington was trying to destroy the 60-year-old family’s car store, destroy the Port Angeles Motel and dig down the dark vert on the highway. The series not only exposed the way the state spent billions on jobs that may never help fish as salmon continue to suffer under human expansion and climate change, but also showed how Washington changed the treaty fishing rights of 21 Native American tribes.
The study found that for all barrier corrections in Washington, nine others upstream and two downstream block fish movements partially or completely.
Reicher, the Times investigative reporter since 2020, and Mapes, the Environmental Reporter for the paper since 1997, have built sources within the tribe, consulted with scientists, and obtained public records and datasets. Martin, a graphic artist and science illustrator of the era since 2022, brought the complexity of Kurbert design and salmon recovery efforts to life for readers.
This series led to high-level discussions about renegotiation Federal government injunction Request Washington to build a dark vert so that Salmon is open.
State and tribal national representatives are expected to begin mediating the program’s schedule and scope soon, perhaps this month. Lawmakers also approved an additional $1.1 billion for the court-ordered Department of Transport’s Calvert Exchange project, bringing the program’s total of about $5.2 billion.
Times executive editor Michele Matassa Flores celebrated Pulitzer’s nod.
“This work highlighted the true costs and great challenges of the state’s well-intentioned salmon restoration efforts,” she said. “As a result, taxpayers are better informed, lawmakers are revisiting spending, and leaders from state and tribal countries are taking part in mediation on a better approach.
“The deep local reporting has great power and we are honored to have been granted coverage by the Pulitzer Committee,” she added.
Baltimore Banner and the New York Times team Winner of the local report Pulitzer For a series on the fentanyl crisis in Baltimore. The Seattle Times journalist was one of two teams named as finalists. The second team consisted of journalists from the San Francisco Chronicle and the University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program.
The Times Tunnel Vision series was part of a partnership between Paper’s WatchDog team and Climate Lab, which was launched early last year.
The Times’ latest Pulitzer victory came in 2020 with a year-long reporting by Dominique Gates, Steve Milletic, Mike Baker and Lewis Cumb of two fatal crashes on Boeing’s 737 Max Jet.
