Media critic Jim Romenesko’s list of Pulitzer Prize contenders is out, just ahead of next week’s application deadline.

Romenesko checked in with Spencer Soper to make sure he’d submitted his exposé of brutal working conditions of Amazon.com’s warehouse in Lehigh Valley, PA. That outstanding story won Soper the October Sidney Award.

Romenesko also asked his friends and colleagues to submit their picks for this year’s Pulitzers. The first name on the list was none other than Sidney Award Winner Sara Ganim for her agenda-setting coverage of the Jerry Sandusky rape scandal at Penn State.

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