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Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism
University of Missouri Press
January 2008
On Sale: January 17, 2008
448 pages ISBN: 0826217680 EAN: 9780826217684 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Pulitzer s Gold is the first book to trace the ninety-year
history of the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Public Service,
awarded annually to a newspaper rather than to individuals.
Harris recalls dozens of stories behind the stories, often
allowing the journalists involved to share their own
accounts. Readers will recognize some of the stories, like
the New York Times s Pentagon Papers exclusive and the
Watergate scandal that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein dug
out for the Washington Post. But Harris takes his Gold Medal
saga through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil
Rights struggle, and the Vietnam era before bringing
public-service journalism into today s age of environmental
and corporate exposés. Story after story illustrates how for
small town papers or metropolitan dailies alike,
public-service reporting is a point of pride for the
American press.
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