DOLEZAL: Prize-worthy stories

I learned a while back that Coeur d’Alene Press writers Maureen Dolan and Jeff Selle have been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes for their spectacular work on the Rachel Dolezal series. Those stories went national and then international; they spawned hundreds, more likely thousands, of additional stories in newspapers, magazines, and on radio and television, but all were based on the original Press investigative reporting. The series had legs, too, meaning that it stayed around for months after The Press did its wonderfully well researched and written pieces.

Whether or not The Press and these two deserving staff members get the award, what an honor simply to have done work worthy of nomination and to have it taken seriously by the Pulitzer Committee. I understand the Pulitzer Prizes will be made public on April 18. I am wishing The Press, Maureen Dolan, Jeff Selle and editor Mike Patrick the best of luck. I can hardly contain my joy at the thought of opening up The Press on the 19th and seeing a headline, “Press wins Pulitzer for Dolezal stories.”

TIM HUNT

Hayden