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left to right: E. Roberts. O. Elliott, J. Pulitzer, T. Winship, J. Hoge, M. Sovern, R. Leonard, E. Patterson, M. Gartner, H. Hays, R. Christopher, C.K. McClatchy (absent from photo: H. Gray, W. Raspberry) Credit: Joe Pineiro/Columbia University
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Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., chair; Robert Christopher, secretary
Lucy Morgan and Jack Reed
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For their thorough reporting on Pasco County Sheriff John Short, which revealed his department's corruption and led to his removal from office by voters.
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1985
Categories:
Investigative Reporting
Publication
St. Petersburg (FL) Times
William K. Marimow
Citation
For his revelation that city police dogs had attacked more than 350 people -- an expose that led to investigations of the K-9 unit and the removal of a dozen officers from it.
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1985
Categories:
Investigative Reporting
Publication
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Josh Friedman, Dennis Bell, and Ozier Muhammad
Citation
For their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa.
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1985
Location
Long Island, NY
Categories:
International Reporting
Publication
Newsday
Studs Terkel
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1985
Categories:
General Nonfiction
Publisher
Pantheon
Publication
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
Thomas Turcol
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For City Hall coverage which exposed the corruption of a local economic development official.
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1985
Location
Norfolk, VA
Categories:
General News Reporting
Publication
Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star
Alice Steinbach
Citation
For her account of a blind boy's world, "A Boy of Unusual Vision."
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1985
Categories:
Feature Writing
Publication
The Baltimore Sun
Stan Grossfeld
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For his series of photographs of the famine in Ethiopia and for his pictures of illegal aliens on the Mexican border.
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1985
Categories:
Feature Photography
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The Boston Globe