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Listen: The Latin ProgramPortrait of Lucy Morgan
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Accompanying note: "Lucy Morgan in 2005 - when Florida Senate was named in her honor as she neared retirement from job of bureau chief after 20 years."
Biographical Note
Lucy W. Morgan was born in 1940 and began her career in 1965 as a general reporter for the Ocala Star-Banner. In 1968 she joined the St. Petersburg Times, where in 1986 she was appointed Chief of the papergass Capital Bureau in Tallahassee. A recipient of numerous awards, her career was highlighted by winning the 1985 Pulitzer Prize (along with fellow reporter Jack Reed) for investigative reporting. In 2005, at the end of the legislative session, the Florida Senate honored her by renaming their press gallery the Lucy Morgan Senate Press Gallery for her 20 years of reporting on the Legislature. On March 14, 2006 she was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.
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