By Roy Harris (BSJ68, MSJ71)

Pulitzer’s Gold: A Century of Public Service Journalism (Columbia U. Press, 2016) tells “the real inside story of the most serious journalism of the last century,” as Bob Woodward puts it, in a way that creates “a brilliant portrait of America.” Its fascinating backstories of how Pulitzer Prize-winning stories were unearthed and produced include not only well-know cases like the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team investigation of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, and the Washington Post’s Watergate disclosures, but lesser-known exposes over 100 years of great reportiing.