AL.com reports:
The wife of failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is criticizing Pulitzer for recognizing journalists who covered allegations her husband had sexual contact with teenage girls in the 1970s. “When journalism becomes a political tool to assassinate someone’s character with false accusations because they disagree with him politically, it is no longer journalism and not worthy of any prize,” Kayla Moore said in a Monday night Facebook post.
The Washington Post and Alabama Media Group’s/AL.com’s John Archibald were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for work done on the Moore story. The staff of the Washington Post was awarded in the investigative reporting category for “purposeful and relentless reporting that changed the course of a Senate race in Alabama by revealing a candidate’s alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls and subsequent efforts to undermine the journalism that exposed it.”