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Bob Dylan Won a Pulitzer

April 8, 2008

Some other people did too.

My former employer, The Washington Post, really cleaned up this time around. I remember a speech that Len Downie made to the newsroom a few years back–one of the years when the paper nabbed no Pulitzers–in which he said, “We are not defined by the prizes we win.” Or don’t win.

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