How One Newspaper Called the Hong Kong Story Right From the Start Wall Street Journal Figured It Out a Generation in Advance https://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-one-newspaper-call-the-hong-kong-story-right/91561/ Journalists celebrate themselves annually with Pulitzer Prizes for the best work published in the previous year. Often, though, a single year is too short a time span in which to judge journalism. A different and more distinguished prize might eventually be established and awarded for journalism published a decade, or perhaps even a quarter-century earlier. It can sometimes take that long to judge whether the reporters and editors got a story right.