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Mark Dooley shared the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for public service with a news team at The Times-Picayune. The team was awarded the prize for a comprehensive series analyzing the environmental and economic forces that threaten the world-wide fishing industry and the cultures of fishing communities.
Dooley received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982.
The team covered areas from the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of New England and from Alaska to Thailand and documented the human costs of fishery collapses and explored the governmental and scientific options that would restore the industry.
Dooley was copy editor for the team.
Source: Jeffrey Meitrodt, "Times-Picayune wins two Pulitzers; Wynton Marsalis scores with Blood in the Fields," The Times-Picayune, April 8, 1997, A1.