Dude, where’s my Pulitzer?

When Brian Gleason heard this week that his old employer, Sun Newspapers of Charlotte Harbor, Fla., had won its first Pulitzer Prize, he was elated. Then he asked his former editor, Jim Gouvellis, what the award was for.

“He said, ‘The prisoner death editorials,’” Mr. Gleason recalled. “I said: ‘Jim, I wrote some of those.’”

It turned out that Mr. Gleason, who left the paper in August, had written three of the eight unsigned pieces recognized by the Pulitzer committee as the finest newspaper editorial writing of last year. The problem: Nobody on the current staff remembered.

“It was not hard for me to remember,” Mr. Gleason, now the communications manager for the local county, said in an interview.