spot news
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Those stories also earned the New York Press Club's 2021 award for spot news and an honorable mention from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026
A year later, Mr. Meyer shared in the Pulitzer Prize for local general or spot news reporting, which went to The Detroit Free Press for its coverage of the riot.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2023
Later in his career, Caulkin was part of an AP team that won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography for their coverage of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2022
"I do a little bit of everything, but primarily I work on human interest stories and not a lot of spot news stories."
From Fox News • Sep. 10, 2021
The front office thought the radio car would give us a break in spot news coverage, and I guessed as wrong as they did.
From The Day of the Boomer Dukes by Emshwiller, Ed
