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This is exactly it. This was clearly a team effort. Like 60 people won the same Pulitzer. But it's quite clear that even as an intern, this individual's contributions were very important.

I love team awards.

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Team awards don’t seem to exist for the advertising industry even tho its a team effort to do the work to win them.

That’s a shame spreading the credit helps build loyalty which keeps those award winning teams in place.

To play devil's advocate, an intern with a Pulitzer (or similarly prestigious award) on their resume is going to have a lot of job opportunities.

You’d be surprised how dire the situation is in most newsrooms, and how petty the competition is.

If your head hasn’t been in the ground for the last twenty years you should have an idea on how bad the business is.

Here is a recent article about the situation if indeed your head is below ground: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-news-041...

I found this comment fairly condescending and presumptuous. Not everyone has the time and ability to follow everything. That doesn't mean their "head is below the ground." Twenty years ago, I was an infant.

Its not just newsrooms. Many teams allow internal politiking to take precedence over working together. As a result, they're at war with themselves _and_ trying to compete in the market for customers.

As you might imagine, teams which do not have this conflict have substantially more time to focus on their customers.

An intern whose work won the Pulitzer but wasn't listed on the byline is probably not going to want to work for you again, for fear of that happening again. It goes both ways.

Unfortunately it's accepted in the industry not to get bilines while you're an internet or a new guy, so I'm sure interns don't have any expectations because of this culture.

> an internet

I realise it's probably auto correct, yet that's still so out of http://n-gate.com :)

A hackernews doesn't follow the Prime Directive

.. bows head, humbly.

Which is exactly why you’re going to attract better intern candidates.

The Clio Awards do (source: I won one as part of the Media Lab team at Bleacher Report).

They credit the team but specifically name the individual members as well.

The Clios are pretty big as industry awards go.

Peggy worked on Glo-Coat, but only Don won the Clio.

I’m assuming they got better since the fictional 60s ;)

Yes, She had the idea to create the database out of unstructured paper arrest slips which gave coverage and statistical credibility to the effort. Key in the entire operation.

Exactly this. She deserves the attention she's getting. And she did the grunt work daily, which is important to call out. Reminds me of the ChicagoCrime.org feet-on-street data wrangling story. A great idea and the persistence to follow through.

Not to mention visiting the county jail each morning, when most interns would just be out getting Starbucks.

> when most interns would just be out getting Starbucks.

On the contrary, most interns I know wouldn't be doing this because of how overworked they are doing the grunt work.

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