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A conversation with journalist Buzz Bissinger
with Buzz Bissinger on Feb 11, 1998
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with Buzz Bissinger on Feb 11, 1998
H. G. “Buzz” Bissinger is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Bissinger is perhaps best known for his book Friday Night Lights, which documents the 1988 season of the football team of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. This work went on to become a successful movie, which was released in October 2004; a television series inspired by the book and the movie debuted on NBC on October 3, 2006.
In 1987, while writing for “The Philadelphia Inquirer” he won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his story on transgressions of Justice in the Philadelphia Court system. He is also the author of the article “Shattered Glass” in “Vanity Fair”, where he is a contributing editor; the article documented the plagiarism scandal that surrounded Philip Glass, a reporter for The New Republic. The article was later adapted for the 2003 film Shattered Glass.
