Newspaper Donates Award Money To Synagogue

September 5, 2019 4:49 pm

PITTSBURGH (AP) – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom has donated the monetary award for their recent Pulitzer Prize to help rebuild the synagogue where 11 people were killed in a massacre last year.   Staffers were honored with the award on April 15 for their coverage of the October shooting that left 11 dead and seven others wounded at the Tree of Life synagogue.   Along with receiving one of the country’s highest honors for journalistic achievement, the newsroom was awarded $15,000.   The Post-Gazette reports that John Robinson Block, the newspaper’s publisher, suggested donating the monetary prize to the congregation to help repair their bullet-riddled temple.   Keith Burris, the newspaper’s executive editor, presented the check to Rabbi Jeffrey Myers and president of the congregation Samuel Schachner on Aug. 29.   The synagogue thanked the newspaper in a Facebook post, saying “Pittsburgh is truly home to some amazing neighbors!”