On-Street Interviewer Receives Pulitzer Prize For Hard Hitting ‘Guinness Or Beamish?’ Series Of Investigations

THE AWARDING committee of the Pulitzer Prize, one of the most revered journalistic awards has finally recognised the groundbreaking reporting of content generating on-the-street interviews in Ireland.

“In their tireless pursuit of the truth, their unmatched integrity and desire to hold the powerful to account, the journalists behind the ‘Pintz’ social media channels have raised the bar for what constitutes journalism,” explained awarding judge Ken Simmons.

“To ask ‘a cheeky Guinness or a cheeky Beamish?’ is to ask about the state of the human soul itself,” Simmons said, expounding on the publication’s output which received a prize ahead of the Washington Post, War Crime Monitor and The Guardian.

“We’re constantly innovating, just last week we asked ‘Beamish or Guinness’. We’d never put Beamish first in the question but we’ll willing to take risks. We’ve also experimented with not putting the hottest woman with the largest cleavage in the thumbnail image,” explained founder of Pintz, Cormac Waverly.

“I think this award shows that you can go from nothing to a Pulitzer even if you’re just armed with a dream and your dad’s marketing company which has existing contracts with Ireland’s leading alcohol brands,” Waverly mused.

Waverly wouldn’t be drawn on future projects going forward, but said there’s many untold stories and unreported issues in Ireland and beyond that he’d like to cover.

“There’s a burning desire in me to solve the greatest questions of our times, it’s just in my nature, it’s my essence. What’s next? Who knows but I kind of feel like no one is asking people on the street if there’s any differences between men and women when it comes to sex and relationships, or where does the best burger or pizza,” concluded Waverly.

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