Alfonso Chardy, Who Helped Expose Iran-Contra Scandal, Dies at 72
A Miami Herald correspondent, he powered a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and helped snare three other Pulitzers for the paper.
By Sam Roberts
A Miami Herald correspondent, he powered a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and helped snare three other Pulitzers for the paper.
By Sam Roberts
He won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1969 and later joined The New York Times, which eventually fired him.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
He won two Pulitzers for Florida newspapers, commenting wryly on war, segregation, church scandals and more while reaching readers nationwide through syndication.
By Sam Roberts
Try this short quiz to test your literary knowledge — and get a few reading suggestions along the way.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
His New York Times scoop enraged the Nixon White House, which ordered a tap on his phone. He later won a Pulitzer Prize for The Boston Globe.
By Clay Risen
The success of his novel “House Made of Dawn,” the first work by a Native American to win a Pulitzer, inspired a wave of Native literature.
By John Motyka
He won two Pulitzer Prizes by transforming accounts of doctors at work into in-depth, narrative articles that read like dramatic short stories.
By Sam Roberts
An incisively funny Washington Post columnist, he earned nicknames like Terrible Tom and had the clout to make or break shows.
By Alex Williams
The Anchorage Daily News was the smallest newspaper and the first in the state to earn the medal for public service in 1976. It then won two more.
By Sam Roberts
An esteemed journalist and author, he was born to a French count but later shed his aristocratic roots (and name) to became a U.S. citizen.
By Jonathan Kandell
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