Hey
SoupInNYC, apropos of nothing...
Pulitzer nominee claim[edit]
Gasparino has been touted as a "
Pulitzer Prize nominee" in his bio from Fox Business, which said he was "nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting" in 1992, when he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
[13] The same claim is made by his agents at the HarperCollins Speakers Bureau,
[14] and on the website of his publisher, Simon and Schuster.
[15] In a promotional video in 2008 for CNBC, his former employer, Gasparino declared, "I am: a writer, son of an ironworker, son of New York, Golden Gloves prospect, a Pulitzer Prize nominee..." In 2012, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
Bill Dedman of
NBC News pointed out that Gasparino had been one of hundreds of entrants in the Pulitzer contest and had never been one of the nominees, which are chosen by Pulitzer juries.
[16][17][18] The Pulitzer Prizes board warns entrants against claiming to be nominees: "Nominated Finalists are selected by the Nominating Juries for each category as finalists in the competition. ... We discourage someone saying he or she was 'nominated' for a Pulitzer simply because an entry was sent to us."
[19] Gasparino initially responded to NBC, "I was nominated by the wsj sir." Later that day, Fox changed his bio, saying that his work "was submitted for the Pulitzer."
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