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| | News -- Nigerian, Dele Olojede, at Newsday, wins Pulitzer prize |
 | | Among other Pulitzer prizes won yesterday were The Associated Press, for breaking news photography, Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal, for criticism, and Amy Dockser Marcus, also of The Wall Street Journal, for beat reporting. |
 | | Olojede was reporter at the National Concord newspaper in Lagos from 1982-1984 and a founding staff writer and assistant editor at Newswatch from 1984-1987. |
 | | The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. They have been awarded each May since 1917 on the recommendation of an advisory board comprising journalists, the president of the university, with the dean of the graduate school of journalism as secretary. |
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