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Big thanks to Tommy for passing along this interview with Mary Bishop, who won a Pulitzer with a Philadelphia Inquirer team for stories about Three Mile Island. Reading this feels like sifting through a I-Team time capsule. Read it all here.

You've covered a lot of other stories, including Three Mile Island. What was your part in that?

I had just been at the Philadelphia Inquirer about two months when the first nuclear leak took place. I happened to be sitting near the environmental writer. This was 1979 and very few papers had environmental writers. It took her a few days to get the top editors to realize what a very big story this was. As far as we know, it had never happened before.
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