Today In Journalism
Pulitzer moments, press freedom fights, and the reporters who held power accountable.
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Last 7 daysA nuclear reactor melts down in Pennsylvania -- and journalists realize they don't understand nuclear physics
March 28, 1979
Alaska is hit by the most powerful earthquake in North American history -- and reporters file stories by shortwave radio
March 27, 1964
A scientist announces a polio vaccine -- and every parent in America hears it on the radio before dinner
March 26, 1953
146 workers die in a factory fire -- and newspaper outrage forces a city to change its laws
March 25, 1911
An oil tanker crashes in Alaska -- and environmental journalism becomes front-page news
March 24, 1989
Patrick Henry's most famous words survive only because a newspaper reporter wrote them down
March 23, 1775
Britain taxes colonial newspapers -- and accidentally unites American printers into a revolutionary force
March 22, 1765
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