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Invariably, Don Vannetta is working on some .
You're usually up to some stuff, Don. Usually have a few things going. General principle. When I say though that, and I say this all the time to the point where I actually don't know why you won them, but I say three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Don Vannetta. Could you refresh our memory here? Like, what were you doing before you were doing what we're here to actually talk about?
The first Pulitzer was a public service Pulitzer, actually at the Miami Herald. It was covering Hurricane Andrew, the eye of the storm. I was in Florida City and 165 mile an hour winds were whipping around us in a Comfort Inn motel, which got torn apart. And I wrote a first person story on a Trash 80, one of these little Texas instrument computers about what it was like to survive the storm.
That got the New York Times' attention, got recruited there at the age of 30, and won two Pulitzers there, team Pulitzers, for explanatory journalism about the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York.
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