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Article: Dave Newhouse: Barack Obama and Chauncey Bailey
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- November 5, 2008
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A confluence of thoughts hit me Monday: The Chauncey Bailey
Project, the Oakland Tribune, the Pulitzer Prize, Oakland's
disturbing crime situation, Barack Obama, Paul Cobb, and the last
time I saw Chauncey Bailey, one week before his killing.
The Tribune has won two Pulitzers for photographic excellence --
Bill Crouch's 1950 photo of two airplanes nearly colliding in
midair, and the Tribune's coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta
earthquake.
Now the Tribune has launched The Chauncey Bailey Project, whose
leader-of-the-pack investigative reporting of Bailey's death has
graced this newspaper and is worthy of Pulitzer consideration.
I worked with Bailey at the Tribune. Besides being a diligent ...