Pulitzer's gold : behind the prize for public service journalism
"Examines the ninety-year history of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded to newspapers. Harris recalls many stories including the New York Time's Pentagon Papers exclusive, the Watergate scandal that was uncovered by the Washington Post and coverage of Hurricane Katrina by the Times-Picayune of New Orleans and the Sun Herald of Biloxi, Mississippi"--Provided by publisher
History
1 online resource (ix, 473 pages) : illustrations
9780826266118, 0826266118
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1: Gold for a new century
The storm before the calm
The most prized Pulitzer
Spotlight on the church
A newsroom challenged
Epiphany in Boston
From Times to Times
2: Coming of age
First gold
Reporting on the roaring
From depression to wartime
A handful of gold
A new stew of issues
3: The golden seventies
Secret papers, secret reporting
All the editor's men
Two types of teaming
Davids and Goliaths
Mightier than the snake
Pulitzer, reform thyself
4: challenges for a new era
Everybody's business
The nature of things
The Post rings twice
Covering "de-Portland"
Back to the future
The gold medal in history
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English