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References
- ↑ "Jeffrey A. Marx and Michael M. York of Lexington (KY) Herald Leader". Prize Winners. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ↑ "Background". Wehner & York, P.C. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ↑ Merritt, Davis (2005). Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy at Risk. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. p. 162. ISBN 9780814428672.
- ↑ "Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters and the Arts". The New York Times . 18 April 1986. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
