Winning a Pulitzer prize is allegedly awesome. Being a Pulitzer finalist gets you 18 "almost" emails and, if you're me, drinks after work on Tuesday with Neil Brown, the very talented, very cool man who runs the newsroom here.
He was talking Tuesday about working in the newsroom of the Miami Herald in the early '80s, a decade in which the paper won eight Pulitzers and was certainly the preeminent paper in Florida, arguably all of the Southeast.
He started rattling off the names of people who worked there in the Crockett and Tubbs era. Amazing. Just a few from memory: Gene Miller, Edna Buchanan, Bill Grueskin, Jeff Leen, Joel Achenbach, David von Drehle, Gene Weingarten, Carl Hiaasen, Dave…
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