The MSM is buzzing about its favorite topic: itself. Pulitzer Prizes being announced here.

Via Drudge:

NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE comes up big for Katrina coverage (‘Breaking News’ and ‘Public Service’)…

Nicholas Kristof of NY TIMES wins for commentary…

Dana Priest of WASHINGTON POST wins for beat reporting on secret prisons and U.S. counterterrorism campaign…

Robin Givhan of WASHINGTON POST for criticism for her fashion coverage…

Yup, that Robin Givhan.

Flashback…Washington Post sinks to a new low.

Background on Dana Priest’s secret prisons story…Power Line: Dana Priest’s global show-and-tell.

Cassandra at TigerHawk: Journalistic ethics, redux.

More winners via the NYTimes:

Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith of The Washington Post received the award for investigative reporting for coverage of the Jack Abramoff scandal.

David Finkel of The Post won the prize explanatory reporting for writing about the U.S. government’s attempt to bring democracy to Yemen.

…James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times and the staffs of the San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service won the award for national reporting — The Times for stories on the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping, the Union-Tribune and Copley for dislcosing the bribe-taking that sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to prison in disgrace.

James Kahn and Jim Yardley of The New York Times won the award for international reporting for coverage of China’s legal system.

Editor & Publisher has more.

Scott Johnson: The Pulitzer Prize for treason

N.Z. Bear: has a graphic response to Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich.

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News items they won’t be discussing:

LGF: Open Antisemitism at New York Times

King of the Hill mocks the New York Times.