Died, the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jimmy Breslin
Winner of the Pulitzer prize for the comment Jimmy Breslin died at the age of 86 years.
He at various times worked as a columnist of many Newspapers in new York such as the New York Daily News, New York Herald Tribune, Newsday and others. The death was confirmed by the wife of the journalist Ronnie Eldridge. According to the New York Times, he was sick with pneumonia.
Himself Jimmy Breslin called “street reporter”. “He spent his entire life looking for true American greatness. If you want to see it, re-read the works of Jimmy Breslin”, — quotes the New York Daily News the words of his fellow columnist Michael Daly. The recognition he received for his coverage of a series of murders committed by David Berkowitz also known as Son of Sam. More than 40 years, Mr. Breslin worked as a “street reporter”, as he called himself, many journalists sought to imitate him. Son of Sam himself contacted him in the summer of 1977.
The most famous award — the Pulitzer prize he received in 1986 “for a column in defense of ordinary citizens.” As noted by his colleagues, Jimmy Breslin was able to find the details that others have not seen. “Shut up, open your eyes and move,” he said about his method of work in 2013 in an interview with CNN. So was born the column for the New York Herald Tribune about the murder of John Kennedy, who is considered a model of journalistic skill.