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The 1984 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Local Investigative Specialized Reporting

Finalist: Arizona Daily Star , by Clark Hallas, John S. Long and David C. McCumber

For their investigation into production problems and mismanagement at the Hughes Aircraft Company's Tucson plant.

Winners

Prize Winner in Local Investigative Specialized Reporting in 1984:

Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary Mc Millan, Kirk Scharfenberg and David Wessel

For their series examining race relations in Boston, a notable exercise in public service that turned a searching gaze on some the city's most honored institutions including The Globe itself. Local Investigative Specialized Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Local Investigative Specialized Reporting in 1984:

Peter Mark Rinearson

For "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner. (Moved by the Board to the Feature Writing category.)

The Jury

Anthony Day(Chair)

Editor of the Editorial Pages, Los Angeles Times

James P. Gannon

Editor, The Des Moines Register

Susan Clark Jackson

Publisher, The Sun-Bulletin and Evening Press, Binghamton, N.Y.

James Lawrence

Assistant Editor, Editorial Page, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

James M. Ragsdale

Editor, The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass.

Winners in Local Investigative Specialized Reporting

1983

Loretta Tofani

For her investigation of rape and sexual assault in the Prince George's County, Maryland, Detention Center.
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1984 Prize Winners

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