USA TODAY Column: …Two reporters, both working moms, best friends, on the staff of a tabloid perpetually threatened with extinction, walk the mean streets of Philadelphia pursuing a story about police corruption.
Lawyers threaten them, one of them gets slapped around, on-the-record sources prove elusive.
But eventually, the project comes together. Their reporting on a rogue narcotics squad preying on immigrant owners of neighborhood bodegas triggers an FBI investigation. And against all odds, they win a Pulitzer Prize… (more)
