Credit: Pulitzer.org

Employees of the Akron Beacon Journal have been moving to the paper’s new offices on South Main Street this week. Furniture, files and computers have been organized and shuffled from the ABJ’s home of more than eight decades to its new digs. Missing among its prized possessions: the Pulitzer Prize medal the paper won in 1984 for its coverage of race in the city.

An employee discovered the medal, which was in a plexiglass case on a display wall (you can see the set-up here), was missing and the case itself broken. Police have taken a report on the possible theft, which likely occurred between Tuesday and Thursday morning.

This article appears in Nov 6-12, 2019.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

3 replies on “Amidst Office Move, Akron Beacon Journal’s Pulitzer Prize Medal Has Been Stolen”

  1. I’ve heard it pronounced as Pull It, Sir…Prize and Pullet Surprise…and of course there are the on-air shmucks who say PEW-lit-zer. But the blonde airheaded bimbo on the Channel 3 Comedy Show at 7 PM topped them all yesterday, when she covered this same story about the missing Pew-LIT-zer Prize.

    Obviously, that’s one idiot who will never have to worry about winning one. Learn to read, Sara Stupid.

  2. I heard it too…but I heard it as Pull-LIT-zer…and it was cringeworthy.
    The changes at Ch. 3 have turned its local news shows into a sick joke.

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