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The 1981 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Local General or Spot News Reporting

Finalist: Baltimore News American , by Staff

For "The Snowball Tragedy," a story of the gap between the young and the elderly.

Winners

Prize Winner in Local General or Spot News Reporting in 1981:

Staff

For its coverage of the Mt. St. Helens story, including the photographs by Roger A. Werth. Local General or Spot News Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Local General or Spot News Reporting in 1981:

Newsroom Staff

For "Three Days of Rage: The Miami Riots."

The Jury

Anthony E. Insolia(Chair)

Vice President and Editor, Newsday

John R. Finnegan

Executive Editor, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press

Earl W. Foell

Editor, The Christian Science Monitor

James McClatchy

Chairman, McClatchy Newspapers

Jean H. Otto

Op-Ed Page Editor, Milwaukee Journal

Winners in Local General or Spot News Reporting

1980

Staff

For coverage of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
1979

Staff

For its coverage of the collision of a Pacific Southwest air liner with a small plane over its city.
1978

Richard Whitt

For his coverage of a fire that took 164 lives at the Beverly Hills Supper Club at Southgate, Ky., and subsequent investigation of the lack of enforcement of state fire codes.
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1981 Prize Winners

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