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- ↑ "WINNERS OF PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM, LETTERS AND THE ARTS". New York Times. 9 April 1987.
GENERAL NEWS REPORTING The Akron Beacon Journal: The Beacon Journal's staff of reporters, artists, photographers and editors won for coverage of a hostile attempt to take over the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Articles on the takeover attempt culminated in an eight-page piece on Nov. 30, The Goodyear War, on the battle between the tire company and the British financier, Sir James Goldsmith. The breakup of Goodyear would have threatened Akron's financial and social fabric.
- ↑ "Award Recipients: Pulitzer Prizes". Medill Northwestern University. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011.
Melissa Johnson (BSJ81), Richard Reiff (BSJ74) and Douglas Oplinger (MSJ77) won in 1987 for General News Reporting for the Akron Beacon-Journal series about the attempted hostile takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
- ↑ "Pulitzer Prizes". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
- ↑ Winning Pulitzers. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-51761-4.
- ↑ "Golden Mike Award Winners". Radio and TV News Association of Southern California. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
- ↑ VENEZIA, BARBARA (May 3, 2018). "Column: Columnist Rick Reiff and professor Bud Little deserve OC Press Club's highest honors". Los Angeles Times.