Alice Crites is “The Pulitzer-Laden Researcher Embedded in the Post Newsroom”
From an Article by David Beard on Poynter.org:
Little known, widely respected: It’s another Pulitzer season for Post’s Alice Crites
One Pulitzer can make a career. Two can make a legend.
Library-trained researcher Alice Crites has been a part of a half-dozen Pulitzer teams. Her latest was announced last week, for an investigation of Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama. The year before, she worked with David Fahrenthold on the Post’s Pulitzer-winning investigation of Donald Trump’s charitable giving.
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Crites, the daughter of an NIH cancer researcher and a librarian for the Montgomery County Schools, said she always was a news junkie, but the idea of being a librarian “never occurred to me.” She studied Chaucer and got a master’s in literary criticism at Carnegie-Mellon before finding herself back in Washington, looking for work.
She started working as a clerk at the Library of Congress, went to the library and information sciences school at University of Maryland and learned to find key materials before VuText, Lexis/Nexis and other search vehicles existed. With her knowledge of legislation and current events, she began working a weekend shift at the Post in 1990 and was hired full-time in 1992.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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