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A Pulitzer Prize Winning Paper

NEWSDAY TAKES PRIDE in its local, regional and foreign news reports and coverage of life, culture, sports, business and entertainment in the New York area. Seventeen Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to Newsday reporters and columnists. Newsday won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for criticism for Justin Davidson’s writings on classical music, and the 1997 spot news reporting award for coverage of the TWA Flight 800 crash. Newsday won two Pulitzers in 1996: for explanatory journalism, won by Laurie Garrett for coverage of the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire, and for beat reporting, won by Robert F. Keeler for "The Life of a Parish," a series of articles on St. Brigid's Catholic parish in Westbury. In 1995, Newsday won prizes for investigative reporting for "Cops on Disability," by Brian Donovan and Stephanie Saul and for commentary by Jim Dwyer. Newsday earned its third Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Reporting in 1993 when Roy Gutman revealed the existence of death camps and ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia. In 1992, the Pulitzer committee selected Newsday in two categories. The staff of New York Newsday won for Spot News Reporting for its coverage of a tragic Manhattan subway crash and Patrick J. Sloyan won for Foreign Reporting after revealing the deadly toll of friendly fire in Operation Desert Storm.

A History of Pulitzers

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