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Mitch PerryApril 18, 2016

The Tampa Bay Times took home not one, but two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday. Their investigation into Pinellas County public schools, “Failure Factories,” took the Pulitzer for Local Reporting. The investigation, researched and reported by Cara Fitzpatrick, Lisa Garter and Michael La Forgia showed how the school district abandoned integration efforts in 2007 and then failed […]

Guest AuthorNovember 30, 2015

If you want to be simultaneously appalled and inspired, go see the movie “Spotlight.” It’s about The Boston Globe’s 2001-2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Boston archdiocese’s decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests and brothers. The film is unusual because it portrays people doing actual journalism. There are no gaggles of goofballs […]

Guest AuthorNovember 29, 2015

If you want to be simultaneously appalled and inspired, go see the movie “Spotlight.” It’s about the Boston Globe’s 2001-2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Boston archdiocese’s decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests and brothers. The film is unusual because it portrays people doing actual journalism. There are no gaggles of goofballs […]

Mitch PerryDecember 19, 2014

What’s next? Yesterday’s not really so stunning rebuke of Mayor Rick Kriseman by the St. Pete City Council has us back where we’ve been for the past six years regarding the Tampa Bay Rays stadium issue – which is a slow countdown to the Rays ultimately packing their bags and leave the area. For years […]

Tag: Pulitzer Prize

Tampa Bay Times takes home two Pulitzer Prizes

Tom O’Hara: “Spotlight” shows journalism at its best, Catholic Church at its worst

Tom O’Hara: “Spotlight” shows journalism at its best, Catholic Church at its worst

Mitch Perry Report for 12.19.14