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1984: Famine in Africa

December 23, 1984
B&W photo of starving child in Africa
Photo by Ozier Muhammad/Newsday

Josh Friedman '68

Josh Friedman, fellow reporter Dennis Bell, and photographer Ozier Muhammad of Newsday sparked an international outcry and won an International Reporting Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for their eye-opening reports on widespread hunger in Africa. 

Read “The Struggle to Survive: Drought Afflicts 21 Countries; Millions Despair of Food”

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