What a rugged emotional landscape this past year was, inside and outside the newsroom walls. Our newsroom receiving the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting feels confusing, an oscillation between wanting to laugh and cry (and barf?). Recognitions like this don’t take way the pain behind what happened, but hopefully honor it, and acknowledge what we can do together pushing in the same direction. “We are not so much celebrating as affirming … the job we were put on this earth to do,” said David Shribman, our former executive editor. “Let’s dedicate ourselves to the memory of those whose lives were lost.” And now, back to work.