{"id":2565,"date":"2012-09-04T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2014-12-23T06:24:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T06:24:49","slug":"ray-sprigles-pulitzer-winning-story-on-the-front-page-of-the-post-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/09\/04\/ray-sprigles-pulitzer-winning-story-on-the-front-page-of-the-post-gazette\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Sprigle\u2019s Pulitzer-winning story on the front page of the Post-Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Sept. 13, 1937:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The story ran in six installments. After the series ran in the PG and the Toledo Blade, the series was syndicated by the New York Times and picked up by newspapers across the country \u2014 \u201cnewspapers whose own reporters had tried and failed to find what Sprigle found.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1986 Bill Block, then publisher of the Post-Gazette, shared his memories of \u00a0Sprigle: \u201cSprigle was a great reporter, but I think he would be very unhappy in this business today. He never could get the other side of a story because it ruined the kind of investigative pieces he liked to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

“But the story on Hugo Black was accurate, above all. He got the dope, there\u2019s no doubt about it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

” \u201cSprigle was a great reporter, but I think he would be very unhappy in this business today.”<\/p>\n

Look at the picturesRay Sprigle\u2019s Pulitzer-winning story on the front page of the Post-Gazette<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[946],"tags":[959,960,980,1250,1036],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9tvh3Ya3h1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C1591&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2568,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/09\/04\/nov-15-1948-the-post-gazettes-reporter-ray\/","url_meta":{"origin":2565,"position":0},"title":"Post-Gazette reporter Ray Sprigle disguises himself as a black man","date":"September 4, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Ray Sprigle was a top-notch investigative journalist.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9n6pdpHVL1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C959&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2571,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/09\/04\/ray-sprigles-series-black-like-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":2565,"position":1},"title":"Ray Sprigle’s series ‘Black Like Me.’","date":"September 4, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"For four endless, crawling weeks I was a Negro in the Deep South. 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