Tiny Central Coast newsroom Lookout Santa Cruz wins Pulitzer Prize
As legacy publications celebrated their Pulitzer Prize wins Monday, bottles of champagne were also uncorked at Lookout Santa Cruz, a fledgling 10-person newsroom based on the second floor of a former bank on Santa Cruz’s quiet, tree-lined Pacific Avenue. “What a day!” said Ken Doctor, the Lookout’s chief executive and founder. “It’s incredible!” The online news organization won the prize for its breaking news coverage of Santa Cruz County’s catastrophic January 2023 floods. … Doctor said the package submitted to the Pulitzer board included on-the-ground reporting, as well as blogs, newsletters and texts produced for readers as the storms hammered California’s Central Coast, causing landslides, levee failures and widespread destruction.