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April 2008
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NEWSBITES
Fil-Am bags Pulitzer Prize
FUNERAL THIEF
Police and the Crespo Funeral
Home in Madrid had no idea
what a 23-year-old Spanish
Young journalist cited for his reporting
man was trying to steal in a
break-in at Burjassot, a small
of two of America’s deadliest shootings
town just outside Valencia.
Neighbors living nearby
alerted police when they heard
Rick Sumallo in New Jersey
the front door of the funeral
I was lucky enough home being forced open in the
A Filipino-American journalist with
middle of the night.
the Washington Post has won the
to get an interview Police officers arrived with
Pulitzer Prize, America’s most presti-
with one of the
the owner, and eventually
found the suspect lying on a
gious accolade in journalism.
Jose Antonio Vargas, 27, was cited eyewitnesses
table in a glassed-in chamber
used for viewings of dead
for his reporting of two of the deadli-
people during wakes, a
est shooting rampages in the US last
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS
local police official said from
year, media reports said.
Washington Post reporter
Burjassot.
The Washington Post packaged
those two articles with seven others
how Virginia Tech students used the
as their entry in the Pulitzer Prize.
Internet to break through the cloud of
MAD INVENTION
A journalist for the past 10 years,
confusion and console each other in
The British inventor of a
Vargas, reported the April 2007 Vir-
the wake of the unprecedented cam-
controversial device which
ginia Tech massacre, where South
pus carnage,” he said.
disperses young people by
Korean student Cho Seung-hui killed
Besides Vargas, there have been at
emitting a high-pitched noise
32 people before committing suicide.
least four Filipinos and Fil-Americans which only they can hear called
“I was lucky enough to get an inter-
that won the Pulitzer Prize, according Wednesday for legislation to
view with one of the eyewitnesses,”
to the report since 1941. regulate its use.
Vargas said.
Vargas is now covering the political
Self-confessed “mad
“I found this eyewitness on Face-
campaign, running up to the Novem-
inventor” Howard Stapleton
book [an online directory that con-
ber presidential elections.
developed the Mosquito after
nects people through social networks
“I specialize in the marriage of
his 15-year-old daughter was
at colleges].
the internet and politics, how all the
harassed by youths hanging
“I got him on the phone, we talked
candidates are campaigning online.
around a local shop.
for 25 minutes on the phone and he
Barack Obama has [generated] a tre-
The device emits an irritating
high-pitched pulse that most
was the only eyewitness we had for
mendous amount of money on the In-
people aged under 20 can
the story, so he was a critical part of
ternet,” he said.
hear but almost nobody over
it,” he said.
The post swept six of the Pulitzer
30 can.
His second story revolved around
prizes this year. Jose Antonio Vargas led a six-category sweep by the Washington Post.
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