 For their efforts, they shared the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, citing "stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime", among other national reporting awards.In 1980, Gaul worked for the "Philadelphia Bulletin" covering Atlantic City, which recently had added casino gaming.He returned to Pottsville a year later and worked on a series detailing millions in waste in the county government, which won a National Headliners Award for investigative reporting.