The Trump Whisperer: A Conversation with Washington Post Reporter David Fahrenthold

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Cody Delistraty | Longreads | September 2017 | 8 minutes (2193 words)

Before David Fahrenthold won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for covering Trump’s candidacy, he spoke to the then-candidate on the phone last May. Trump called Fahrenthold “a nasty guy.”

One of Fahrenthold’s most impressive journalistic pursuits came after that conversation, when he began to investigate Trump’s charitable giving. Trump had long made loud claims about his charitable donations, but Fahrenthold discovered that although Trump claimed to have donated millions of dollars spread among 400 charities, very few of those charities had any record of Trump’s supposed contributions.

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Matt Giles

The winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize were announced today — on the 170th birthday of Joseph Pulitzer — and though there were some surprises, the majority of the honors were bestowed on some of the year’s most talked about pieces of writing. For example, Colson Whitehead won for his ground-breaking work of fiction, The Underground Railroad. And C.J. Chivers of the New York Times snagged a Pulitzer for his heart-breaking portrayal of a soldier grappling with his life stateside in “The Fighter.”

The entire list of the other Pulitzer recipients can be found here, but below is a compendium of some of the celebrated works. Read more…

April 10, 2017

Categories: Current Events, Nonfiction, Reading List

Tags: Attica Prison, Attica prison riot, C.J. Chivers, colson whitehead, David Fahrenthold, Ghost Ship Fire, hilton als, Joseph Pulitzer, Panama Papers, pulitzer prize

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