This list of supposed Pulitzer finalists has been circulating around all day, we feel a little exit-pollish about it, but it's written in just the kind of cutline news-speak that we've come to expect from leaked memos. And hey, there's no superscript problems. The big news, we think, is Newsday getting mad props for its "History of Hip Hop," which we think came with free breakdancing lessons. Also awesome: Another reason to make room for Ron Brownstein's ego in the green room, he's up for beat reporting. (Watch out if he wins: His punditry expands to fill space available...) As for the NYT? Well, that railroad crossing story so had Pulitzer-fishing written all over it.

List after the jump.

PUBLIC SERVICE

LATimes, inner city hospital investigation

Orange County Register, lead in candy

Pensacola, Fla., hurricane coverage

FEATURE

Chicago Tribune, reconstruction of a tornado

Star-Ledger, last chance high school

WashPost, Anne Hull, young and gay in America

EXPLANATORY

Newsday History of Hip Hop

Boston Globe

NYTimes

NATIONAL

NYTimes, deadly railroad crossings

WashPost, Abu Ghraib

Oregonian, meth series

EDITORIAL WRITING

San Jose Mercury

Sacramento Bee, reclaiming Hetch Hetchy Valley

Washington Post

INVESTIGATIVE

NYTimes, fleecing of soldiers

Des Moines, beating the rap

Willamette Week, Goldschmidt

BEAT

WSJ, Amy Marcus, cancer survivors

LATimes, Ron Brownstein, politics

WP Dana Priest

BREAKING NEWS

Star-Ledger, McGreevey resignation

Charlotte, Fla., hurricane coverage

Sun-Sentinel, hurricane coverage

INTERNATIONAL

Borzou Daragahi, The Star Ledger, Iraq

Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times, Russia

Dele Olojede, Newsday, Rwanda