The Pulitzer Prizes will be announced later today, and in newsrooms across America, editors are calling into their favorite Vegas bookie to get the over/under on Pro Publica's "Dollars for Docs" piece, or the Pittsburg Post-Gazette's "Pipeline" stories. But one rumor may send scotch glasses soaring against cubicle walls: The Huffington Post may win journalism's highest honor.
According to Business Insider, the publication may win for its "Beyond the Battlefield" series on wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—a noble topic indeed, which more than balances out the whole "Kim Kardashian dated Reggie Watts" thing. Vegas bookies are now determining the odds of Ariana Huffington accepting the award then aggregating Williams Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech from 1950.
Poynter has more on Pulitzer speculation, which includes Sarasota's Herald Tribune story on Florida police officers who were "Unfit for Duty."
