David Halberstam by [barthjg](https://www.flickr.com/photos/barthjg/4597604920) on Flickr ([Creative Commons](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/))
Mississippi reporter William Browning writes about the Pulitzer winner's year at one of the state's smallest and least sophisticated newspapers: "Its circulation was approximately 4,000, which made it the smallest daily paper in Mississippi, a state known for its conservative and, at the time, racist majority. Not to mention that West Point, population 6,500, lacked the excitement that would have appealed to a young bachelor. But, for Halberstam, nothing else was doing."
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