Gary Cohn and Will Englund, reporters for The Sun, won a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting in 1998 for a series of stories exposing the extraordinary hazards to workers and the environment caused by the little-known industry that scraps old ships. Their sweeping account of migrant workers maimed and killed in sloppy and unregulated shipbreaking operations from Baltimore to India prompted the U.S. Navy to drop a plan to send retired warships overseas for scrapping. The stories also sparked congressional hearings and prompted the Defense Department to order a study on how naval vessels can be scrapped safely. “We were very impressed with how the Sun reporters had taken a good local story and pursued it to national and even international scope," said Paul C. Tash, executive editor of the St. Petersburg Times, chairman of the five-member Pulitzer jury on investigative reporting. "Some of the scenes were horrifically gripping. That speaks to the quality of the storytelling," Tash said. Intriguing stories like this one were very appreciated b new reporters and upcoming investigators.

-Victor Moore