Fellows & Editors
Justin Pritchard
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 1999
- Affiliation:
- Legi-slate News Service
- Country:
- Cuba
- Year:
- 1999
Justin Pritchard is a reporter on National Investigative Team at the Associated Press. He has worked as a writer and editor at AP since returning to the United States after a year freelancing from Southeast Asia in 2000, in that time covering everything from national campaigns to Hurricane Katrina to imported food safety, as well at the Olympics and World Cup. In 2004, he won a George Polk Award for his investigation that detailed disproportionate on-the-job death rates among Mexican-born workers in the U.S. As an IRP fellow in 1999, Pritchard covered Congress for LEGI-SLATE News Service, then an online service owned by the Washington Post Company. Previously he was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Providence Journal-Bulletin. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a B.A. in history.
Stories
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US-Cuba: Not the Only Game in Town
HAVANA, Cuba, Spring, 1999 - While 50,000 baseball fans cheered the close encounter between the Baltimore Orioles and Cuban all-stars on Sunday, many Cubans and their government were playing another kind of game. For...
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‘Camel’ Caravans Hit Stride in Cuba
HAVANA - Spring,1999 It is a sun stifled Sunday morning, and thousands of city residents are scrambling to get to the public beach 10 miles east of downtown. Since private cars are...
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Rock-and-Diamond Diplomacy Arrives in Cuba
CUBA, Spring, 1999 -- When a constellation of American and Cuban musicians ascends this evening on the stage of Havana's Karl Marx Theater, just 5,000 citizens in this country of 11 million will be able...
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A Window Briefly Opens: Baseball Players, Musicians Bring Piece of America to Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba Spring, 1999- Does it cost $25 or $2,500 to watch a baseball game in America? That was the question of the moment in Havana's Central Park, a town square in...
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