Brief post here. The Pultizer Prizes for Journalism were announced today. Almost every one of the 15 winners is based in New York or Washington, D.C. (Which is usually referred to as the Acela corridor, named for the Amtrak train that goes between the two cities.)

The only prizes not going to those two cities were for the Houston Chronicle for editorials and Reuters, which is based in London, for investigative reporting on the fentanyl crisis. (The Baltimore Banner was included for local reporting, but it was in collaboration with the New York Times.)

So, as far as the Pulitzers are concerned, there’s no good journalism anywhere else in the country. That especially includes the local Gannett-owned rag. (To embarrass the locals even more, the San Francisco Chronicle was named a finalist for the national reporting prize for a series on irresponsible police pursuits that included a story on a fatal Louisville chase, which we’ve referred to before in this blog.)