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The 1980 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Local General or Spot News Reporting

Finalist: Chicago Tribune , by Staff

For coverage of the worst air crash in history and the blizzard of 1979.

Winners

Prize Winner in Local General or Spot News Reporting in 1980:

Staff

For coverage of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. Local General or Spot News Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Local General or Spot News Reporting in 1980:

Staff

For coverage of a shootout of the Ku Klux Klan

The Jury

Warren L. Lerude(Chair)*

Publisher, Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal

Gerald Crawford

Editor, Albuquerque Journal

Michael Grehl

Editor, The Commercial Appeal

Edward K. Shanahan

Editor, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass.

Audrey Weaver

News Editor, Chicago Defender

Winners in Local General or Spot News Reporting

1979

Staff

For its coverage of the collision of a Pacific Southwest air liner with a small plane over its city.
1978

Richard Whitt

For his coverage of a fire that took 164 lives at the Beverly Hills Supper Club at Southgate, Ky., and subsequent investigation of the lack of enforcement of state fire codes.
1976

Gene Miller

For his persistent and courageous reporting over eight and one-half years that led to the exoneration and release of two men who had twice been tried for murder and wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Florida.
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1980 Prize Winners

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