The Las Vegas Sun (the Weekly’s corporate sibling) has been pumping out consistently high-quality work for some time, and it’s finally been rewarded, with the Holy Grail of journalism awards, no less: the Pulitzer. It’s the first time in Las Vegas’ history that a local paper has achieved the honor (it’s only happened in the entire state one other time, 32 years ago). Alexandra Berzon’s pieces on construction deaths on the Strip not only broke nationwide, but they also changed policy. If that’s not an argument for saving newspapers, we don’t know what is.