So Close to Greatness. Or, How An LA Times Story I Almost Worked On Won a Pulitzer Prize.

A big congratulations to Julie Cart and Bettina Boxall, awesome environment reporters at the Los Angeles Times. They won a Pulitzer Prize for their series, Big Burn, about wildfires.

Here's my question: Had I, as my editor first suggested, chosen to spend my summer doing research on the wildfire series instead of reporting and writing my own stories to get clips, would I have some tiny small share of a Pulitzer Prize?

Ah, the choices we make.