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2009.04.05: April 5, 2009: Headlines: Investigative Journalism: Journalism: Safety: Awards: 2TheAdvocate: Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Carollo will be inducted into the Manship School of Mass Communication Hall of Fame
Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Carollo will be inducted into the Manship School of Mass Communication Hall of Fame
Carollo, who graduated in 1982, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for National Reporting while working for the Dayton Daily News, for his investigation of medical malpractice in the military. The series was responsible for reforms in the military’s health-care system. Congress approved $5 million to study the problems discussed in the series. “Russell is perhaps the nation’s most-prolific filer of Freedom of Information requests,” said Jay Perkins, one of Carollo’s professors. Russell Carollo and Mei-ling Hopgood of the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News previously shared a prize for "Casualties of Peace," a seven-day series that revealed an safety and security issues in the Peace Corps.
Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Carollo will be inducted into the Manship School of Mass Communication Hall of Fame
Four to be inducted into Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame induction
* By ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT
* Published: Apr 5, 2009
Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Carollo and community leader Jackie Ducote will be inducted into the Manship School of Mass Communication Hall of Fame May 1. Posthumous inductees are Hugh Mercer Blain, the first director of the journalism program at LSU, and Laurie Smith Anderson, a longtime Advocate reporter.
The ceremony will be held at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication.
Carollo, who graduated in 1982, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for National Reporting while working for the Dayton Daily News, for his investigation of medical malpractice in the military.
The series was responsible for reforms in the military’s health-care system. Congress approved $5 million to study the problems discussed in the series.
“Russell is perhaps the nation’s most-prolific filer of Freedom of Information requests,” said Jay Perkins, one of Carollo’s professors.
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