A news website backed by gun control advocate Michael Bloomberg hasn’t gone public yet but already has a lofty goal: win the Pulitzer Prize for advocating against gun violence.
“We believe that the rate of gun violence is too high and we believe that there is not enough information about the issue as a whole,” James Burnett, editorial director of Bloomberg’s “The Trace” told the Huffington Post. “As journalists, we have it as our mission to address that shortage of information.”
HuffPost said that The Trace provided this image of their motto.
One associate of the news site, described as an arm of the anti-gun Bloomberg group “Everytown for Gun Safety,” told Secrets that it was not anti-gun. But Burnett put the focus on gun deaths, telling HuffPost that there are “too many people being killed and injured by guns.”
The site plans to cover gun news and wants to provide information about guns used in crimes that backers say was suppressed in legislation pushed by the National Rifle Association.
The HuffPost story said that The Trace wants “to win a Pulitzer.”
Secrets on Monday revealed that the news site is previewing the website in Washington at a upper Northwest house party Tuesday night.
The website, based in Manhattan, is expected to go live this week.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
