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Hedrick Smith, NF ’70

Hedrick Smith, NF ’70

Smith recalls his time as a member of the team at the Times that worked on the Pentagon Papers.For three months, Neil Sheehan and I disappeared into the mass anonymity…
August 2, 2016
Stan Grossfeld, NF ’92

Stan Grossfeld, NF ’92

In 1984, Grossfeld and Globe reporter Colin Nickerson hooked up with a rebel group bringing a food convoy from Sudan to Ethiopia. As Grossfeld recalls, they traveled at night and…
August 2, 2016
Dale Maharidge, NF ’88

Dale Maharidge, NF ’88

Maharidge and Williamson revisited rural Alabama to find out what happened to the families of the poor sharecroppers chronicled by another writer-photographer pair, James Agee and Walker Evans, in the…
August 2, 2016
Gene Miller, NF ’68

Gene Miller, NF ’68

Miller won the first of two Pulitzers for his investigations into the cases of two people wrongfully convicted of murder. Both were released from prison as a result of Miller’s…
August 2, 2016
William Lambert, NF ’60 Wallace Turner, NF ’59

William Lambert, NF ’60 Wallace Turner, NF ’59

Lambert and Turner’s stories about efforts on the part of union and underworld figures to wrest control from municipal officials in Portland, Oregon helped spur investigations into organized crime in…
August 2, 2016
Keyes Beech, NF ’53

Keyes Beech, NF ’53

Six foreign correspondents from three news outlets shared the prize for their reporting on the Korean War. Recognized alongside Homer Bigart, Marguerite Higgins, Relman Morin, Fred Sparks, and Don Whitehead,…
August 2, 2016
Doug Marlette, NF ’81

Doug Marlette, NF ’81

Marlette, who died in 2007, is remembered by Christopher Weyant, NF ’16, a cartoonist for The New Yorker.Of the thousands of political cartoons I’ve read over the course of my…
August 2, 2016
Daniel R. Biddle, NF ’90, H.G. Bissinger, NF ’86, and Fredric N. Tulsky, NF ’89

Daniel R. Biddle, NF ’90, H.G. Bissinger, NF ’86, and Fredric N. Tulsky, NF ’89

Biddle, Bissinger, and Tulsky’s series on the Philadelphia court system documented an array of incompetence, politicking, and other transgressions, leading to federal and state investigations.Behind the scenes, Common Pleas Court…
August 2, 2016
Anne Hull, NF ’95

Anne Hull, NF ’95

The Washington Post’s investigation into the neglect and mistreatment of wounded veterans and the deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center incited a public outcry and prompted a…
August 2, 2016
Stanley Forman, NF ’80

Stanley Forman, NF ’80

Forman won the Pulitzer for Spot News Photography two years in a row, the second time, in 1977, for “The Soiling of Old Glory.” In a recent interview, he talks…
August 2, 2016