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  "id": "1998-may-pulitzer-profiles",
  "slug": "1998-may-pulitzer-profiles",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1998-may-pulitzer-profiles.html",
  "year": 1998,
  "month": "May",
  "monthNum": 5,
  "headline": "Pulitzer profiles",
  "kicker": "ON THE INTERNET",
  "author_name": "Nora Paul",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "Poynter Institute",
  "summary": "This column highlights Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism entries across multiple categories, including the Grand Forks Herald's disaster coverage, the Los Angeles Times' breaking news reporting on a bank robbery, and the Baltimore Sun's investigative series on shipbreaking, while providing relevant web resources for journalists covering similar stories.",
  "keywords": [
    "Pulitzer",
    "journalism",
    "reporting"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet",
    "World Wide Web"
  ],
  "full_text": "Welcome to the \"On the Internet\" Pulitzer Prize column. We'll look at each of the prize winners and point you to versions of their stories (if available on the Web) and related Web sites that might help you if you are covering a similar type of story.\n\nPublic Service: Grand Forks Herald\n\nCoverage of the flood, blizzard and fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant. Read about the win: http://www.gfherald.com/news/daily/415/415front.htm Read some of the stories: http://newslibrary.infi.net/ The Infinet NewsLibrary site has the archive of Grand Forks Herald stories back to 1994. Searching is free, but if you want to read an article, it's $1.00 each. If you're covering a similar story: Disaster Resources\n\nFederal Emergency Management Agency: http://www.fema.gov\nEmergencyNetNews: http://www.emergency.com/ennday.htm - a resource of articles, reports and backgrounders on every kind of disaster and emergency, worldwide.\nDisaster Finder: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ndrd/disaster/ \"A complete index to the best disaster Web sites on the Internet. Period.\" Well, sort of. Good subject organization of the links but little annotation of the information to be found.\nDisaster Relief: Worldwide Disaster Aid and Information Via the Internet: http://www.disasterrelief.org/Links/ - great compilation of resources on the Internet regarding disasters. Links to Red Cross sites, disaster relief agencies, and reference sites.\nYahoo's Disaster Links: http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/Disasters/ - links to the following disaster categories: airplane accidents, avalanches, blizzards, Chernobyl, drought in the Midwest, Dust Bowl, earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, landslides, nuclear disasters, spills, organizations, tornadoes, typhoons, volcanoes.\n\nBreaking News Reporting: Los Angeles Times\n\nCoverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shootout in North Hollywood.\nRead about the win: http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/PULITZER_98/ See and hear the newsroom's reaction: http://www.latimes.com/MULTIMEDIA/VIDEO/shootout.980415.mov Read some of the stories: http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/PULITZER_98/N_HOLLYWOOD/ If you're covering a similar story: Crime Resources\n\nCopnet: http://police.sas.ab.ca/ - great list of links to resources and to city and state police sites.\nThe Police Officer's Internet Directory: http://www.officer.com/\nArmed Robbery Page: http://www.ior.com/~jdmoore/ - interesting little page by an entrepreneur wanting to train employees in high-risk jobs about how to deal with an armed robbery. Based out of Spokane, Wash.\n\nInvestigative Reporting: Baltimore Sun\n\nSeries on the international shipbreaking industry, what happens to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled. Read about the win: http://www.sunspot.net/archive/search/ - You'll have to use their archive of stories going back to 1990 to read about the win - and it will cost you $1.95. Read the stories: http://www.sunspot.net/news/special/shipbreakers/ - They have packaged the series on their Web site, with photos.\n\nExplanatory Reporting: Chicago Tribune\n\nProfile of the Human Genome Diversity Project Read about the win: http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,1051,ART-7040,00.html Read the stories: http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,1051,ART-6989,00.html\n\nIf you're covering a similar story: Human Genome Diversity Project, genetics\n\nHuman Genome Project Information: http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html\nHuman Genome Program information from the D.O.E.: http://www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/hug_top.html\nThe Human Genome Organisation: http://hugo.gdb.org/\nThe National Human Genome Research Institute: http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/\n\nBeat Reporting: New York Times\n\nCoverage of the U.S. Supreme Court Read about the win and click to the stories: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/041498greenhouse.html If you're covering a similar story: U.S. Supreme Court\n\nSupreme Court Decisions: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/\nRules of the Supreme Court of the United States: http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/overview.html\n\nNational Reporting: Dayton Daily News\n\nDisclosure of flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system Read the stories: http://www.ActiveDayton.com/doctors/i/index.html If you're covering a similar story: Military hospitals\n\nDepartment of Defense, Health Affairs: http://www.ha.osd.mil/index.html\nDepartment of Veteran Affairs: http://www.va.gov\nListing of Defense Department health care policies: http://www.ha.osd.mil/ppc/num_poli.html - many with links to the documents themselves\n\nInternational Reporting: New York Times\n\nSeries on drug corruption in Mexico Read about the win and click to the stories: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/041498mexico.html If you're covering a similar story: Mexico, DEA, drug smuggling\n\nDrug Enforcement Administration: http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/\nOffice of National Drug Control Policy: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/ - use \"search\" and find items related to Mexico.\nUnited Nations International Drug Control Programme: www.undcp.org/\nMediaAwareness Project: Drugnews Search: http://www.mapinc.org/crime.htm/ - locate articles about drug policy and enforcement from a variety of sources.\n\nFeature Writing: St. Petersburg Times\n\nPortrait of a mother and two daughters murdered during a Florida vacation and the investigation of the murders. Read the stories: http://www.sptimes.com/Pulitzer98/awards.html\nIf you're covering a similar story: murder\nWebgator: http://www.inil.com/users/dguss/wgator.htm - when you're doing an investigation, these are great investigative resources.\nThe Crime Library: http://www.crimelibrary.com/ - links and text to other famous/infamous murder cases. The sources of the reports seem credible, but none are crime writers.\n\nCommentary: New York Daily News\n\nCoverage of a Haitian immigrant brutalized by police officers at a Brooklyn station house. Read about the win and click to the stories: http://search.mostnewyork.com/most/manual/news/mcalary/machome.htm If you're covering a similar story: police brutality\n\nThe Police Complaint Center: http://www.policeabuse.com/ - a non-profit seeking to compile incidences of police abuse. Located in Tallahassee, Fla.\nYahoo's Police Brutality links: http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Crime/Crimes/Police_Brutality/ - Most of the sites listed are decidedly biased Websites. Use with caution, but the sites might be interesting sources for personal stories.\n\nNora Paul can be reached by e-mail at npaul@poynter.org",
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