Meyer "Mike" Berger was an American journalist, considered one of the finest newspaper reporters.
10 Facts About Meyer Berger
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Meyer Berger was known for "About New York", a long-running column in The New York Times, and for his centennial history of that paper.
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Meyer Berger was born in New York City on September 1,1898, the son of a Czech immigrant father and a storekeeper mother.
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Meyer Berger dropped out of school for financial reasons and became a messenger for a newspaper, the New York World.
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In 1928, Meyer Berger joined the staff of The Times, where, except for a short stint at The New Yorker, he worked until his death in 1959.
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Meyer Berger soon became the top color writer at The Times writing mostly on local matters including murders, the mob, and the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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Meyer Berger won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 1950.
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Meyer Berger prepared and typed the 4,000-word article in two-and-a-half hours and it was published unedited in the newspaper the next morning.
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Meyer Berger donated the $1,000 Pulitzer Prize money to Unruh's mother.
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Meyer Berger is often called one of the best American journalists and some of his articles are considered to be the best examples of color reporting: such as his Pulitzer winner, his report on the arrival of the first set of coffins from Europe after the war, and the baseball poetry he wrote about the error that cost the Brooklyn Dodgers the fourth game of the 1941 World Series.