Mr. Harris there was no good record on how that work had been done. Many reporters do not know about it. I wanted to write it for journalism students, but also i wanted to write and for general readership, the same people who might have enjoyed all the president s men, who might have liked how journalists worked at their very peak. What i found was that very little has been written about these prizes. It is interesting, because you would expect the pulitzer would be well known, but the stories of how these articles were written is not known. And all the president s men is the exception. Everybody knows a lot about them. I did have to do a chapter on it, because it was a Public Service a winner. And i got to spend some time with bob woodward and bradley. But it was the lesserknown stories during those years, where i found the real treasure. The first prize of went for the coverage of world war i. And it showed how newspaper journalism has been playing a role of exposing problems. In the
Prize winning reporters Elizabeth Mehren and Sacha Pfeiffer. They focus on the future of community and Public Service journalism, which they deem fundamental to service life. This was recorded in Brookline Booksmith in brookline, massachusetts. 2016 marks the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize in this years crisis will be announced on april 18. Thank you all for coming. This discussion of pulitzers gold behind the prize for Public Service journalism will from st. Louis. It is something we have to adjust to. I am roy harris, the author of the book, and i am honored to have two top new england journalists, a list of his marriage to my far right, and Sacha Pfeiffer to my immediate right. Part of our goal is to look at the powerful contributions of this centurylong body of work. It was 90 years when i started work on it. We are almost up to a century. The Pulitzer Prize started in 1917. We look at the powerful contributions of this work, this body of work, that is represented in the book, bu
It sets us up for a seasonably cool weekend but dry. Is that the theme that will play out next week too . Well take a look coming up. You can track the wet weather anytime using our interactive radar. Go to whdh. Com or use the 7 news mobile app. A warn for people looking for love online. Boston police want you to know about a catphishing crime ring that could turn very dangerous. Men have been posting fake profiles online and luring in women to rob them. Reporter six people robbed since the beginning of fall. Police say tonight they are warning anyone whose looking to log only for love to watch out. Thats weird. Because its somebody you thought you were interested in. Reporter someone is targeting people online pretending to meet them out for a date but them robbing that person at gunpoint instead. I think people just need to be more careful. Like dont just trust reporter investigators say there have been about a half a dozen robberies reported in the past few weeks in mat matta pan m
For those of you keeping score. Antoinette i learn something new everyday. Doug mike wankum came in this morning and told us all about it. Mike its a big thing in england but here its a day to go shopping and pick up a few items on sale. Its a very thin overcast were talking about but i am watching several things. Down to the south you see mild air and rain and a storm system over the midwest. This is all going to be coming in here for tomorrow. If you want dry weather, enjoy today because the wet weather will be moving back in. Stepping outside this morning, got temperatures in the 30s and 40s. We actually were into the 50s just a couple of hours ago. Theyve dropped off just a little bit. Heres what will happen today. Basically clear skies across the area. Late in the day though the clouds start to roll in. This is 8 00 tonight. After midnight it looks like well see rain moving in to the forecast. Temperatures will not budge much today. Theyre holding flat. So well go with some mostly
Mike still mild this morning, but changes are on the way. When the temperatures drop and a storm moves in. Youre watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning this is newscenter 5s eyeopener. Antoinette everyone recovered from christmas this morning . Good morning to you. Just after 6 00. Im antoinette antonio. Doug and im doug meehan. Saturday, december 26. If you have tensal and boxes laying around the house, get to it in a little bit. Hang out with us for a while. We have changes in the weather. Mike first off youll notice the cooler temperatures. Not terribly cold for this time of year but cooler temperatures. Ive got rain coming in late tonight. But the bum being of today is not looking bad. You step out this morning. You have temperatures into the 0s and 40s out there. Some places close to the 50degree mark so its a very mild start to the day. Weve got the cloud cover which is in here. Its a very thin overcast were talking about. Its thinning out pretty quickly up here to the