Thanks to his work as part of the Washington Post team that covered the August 3rd Walmart massacre, journalist Bob Moore is now a Pulitzer Prize Finalist.
“I was privileged to help tell El Paso’s story to the world in our darkest time,” said Moore, the award-winning former El Paso Times editor who founded the nonprofit El Paso Matters in 2019.
Moore was a key reporter for the Washington Post’s coverage of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio on August 3, 2019. The team was cited for its “incisive” coverage of the back-to-back shooings “that contextualized these events for a national audience,” according to the Pulitzer Prize website.
The Post was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. The Louisville Courier-Journal won the award.
The El Paso Community Foundation is the fiscal sponsor of the digital news outlet, which has aggressively reported on the coronavirus pandemic’s impacts in El Paso.
“I can’t tell you how proud we are to have El Paso Matters as one of our affiliates,” said Eric Pearson, El Paso Community Foundation president and CEO.
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