My latest for the obituary section.
“I feel it’s a little ironic after having worked in Moscow and Vietnam and Beirut — to find my Pulitzer in a little town in North Carolina,” Mr. Coughlin said in 1990. “It says if you set your standards high enough, you can be just as good as big-town newspapers.”
BY ZACH C. COHEN zach.cohen@washpost.com
The Washington Post
May 14, 2014
William J. Coughlin, who traversed four continents as a foreign correspondent before guiding a 10,000-circulation North Carolina newspaper to a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation into cancer-causing chemicals in the municipal water supply, died May 8 at a hospice in Bolivia, N.C. He was 91.
Online: “William J. Coughlin, who led small North Carolina newspaper to a Pulitzer, dies at 91”
Zach C. Cohen 