From Popcorn to Pulitzer

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...To raise money for his Boy Scout troop, Brian spent fall evenings alone, turning up virtually every driveway and ringing doorbells in the college town where he grew up, West Lafayette, Ind. Peddling flavors such as Unbelievable Butter and Chocolatey Caramel Crunch, Brian raised almost $6,000 in eighth grade — more than any other Boy Scout in his section of Indiana.

In May this year, Mr. Rosenthal, now 31 and a reporter for The Times’s Metro section, earned another distinction: the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. The award recognized Mr. Rosenthal’s exposé of predatory lending in New York’s taxi medallion industry, which devastated a generation of drivers.

...He attended journalism school at Northwestern, where he applied a crusading style of journalism to campus politics. As editor of the school paper, Mr. Rosenthal splashed the names of members of a secret society on Page 1. He defended the decision in a letter that quoted the Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and cited the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics three times.

...In a series for The Houston Chronicle, he showed that tens of thousands of schoolchildren in Texas with disabilities including autism and blindness were systematically denied special education.

More at source:  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/insider/brian-rosenthal-pulitzer.html

Well done.