By Roy J. Harris

ISBN-10: 0231170289

ISBN-13: 9780231170284

ISBN-10: 0231170297

ISBN-13: 9780231170291

The Joseph Pulitzer Gold Medal for meritorious public carrier is an extraordinary American media honor, provided to information firms for collaborative reporting that strikes readers, provokes swap, and advances the journalistic career. up to date to mirror new winners and the various alterations within the perform and enterprise of journalism, Pulitzer’s Gold is going behind the curtain to give an explanation for the mechanics and results of those groundbreaking works. The veteran journalist Roy J. Harris Jr. provides attention-grabbing new aspect to recognized debts of the Washington publish research into the Watergate affair, the recent York occasions insurance of the Pentagon Papers, and the Boston Globe revelations of the Catholic Church’s sexual-abuse cover-up. He examines fresh Pulitzer-winning assurance of presidency surveillance of U.S. voters and expands on underexplored tales, from the scandals that took down Boston monetary fraud artist Charles Ponzi in 1920 to fresh exposés that exposed overlook at Walter Reed military scientific middle and municipal thievery in Bell, California. This one-hundred-year background of daring journalism follows advancements in all kinds of reporting—environmental, enterprise, catastrophe insurance, battle, and more.

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