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April 13, 2010

ProPublica Becomes First Online Pulitzer Winner
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And in media news, winners of this year Pulitzer Prize for journalism
were announced on Monday. The investigative website Pro Publica became
the first online news outlet to receive a Pulitzer. Investigative
reporter Sheri Fink won for a lengthy article on allegations doctors at
a New Orleans hospital euthanized patients in the days after Hurricane
Katrina. Fink “discussed her story on Democracy Now! last year.”:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/31/thedeadlychoicesatmemorial_investigation

Sheri Fink: “All we know is that Dr. [Anna] Pou was seen going into this
patient’s room with medications, saying, ‘I’m going to tell him I’m
going to give him something for his dizziness.’ And later, during the
investigation, he had died, and they found these drugs, morphine and
midazolam. These two drugs that were found in many of the patients were
found in him. So it’s hard to know exactly what happened there.”



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