Wm. A.
MULLIGAN Ph.D.
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© 2010 William A. Mulligan, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Professor of Journalism, former department chairman
California State University, Long Beach
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420: glory days______
HER-EX of Los Angeles, a Hearst evening paper, says goodbye to the city, Nov. 2, 1989.
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Background: Columbia Missourian, Paul Williams
Immigrants
Nominated for Pulitzer
Nominated for Pulitzer
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‘Streets of Terror and Tears
. . . was the unanimous choice
for the first-place . . .
We felt that this entry
could have competed
on a professional level.
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Society of Professional Journalists
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420:
The glory
days
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 24, 2009
INTRODUCTION
ONCE UPON A TIME . . .
Not too long ago, in a land not so far away, the big-city mass-circulated newspapers were doing little in-depth investigative reporting.
This is the story of students of the small 420 class at the big state university in Long Beach California were news storytelling.
At a time before the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, a Hearst newspaper, bid farewell on Nov. 2, 1989, to Los Angeles with Her-Ex's blaring banner — ‘SO LONG, L.A.’ — a top editor at the newspaper wrote a letter to this writer, one of the special 420 investigative sections, on urban problems, was published.
At a time before the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, a Hearst newspaper, bid farewell on Nov. 2, 1989, to Los Angeles with Her-Ex's blaring banner — ‘SO LONG, L.A.’ — a top editor at the newspaper wrote a letter to this writer, one of the special 420 investigative sections, on urban problems, was published.
The editor wrote that his big-city paper could not devote the resources to such indepth investigative team reporting as did the 420 class because it did not have the resources of a university.
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