While in college , Shaw began his journalism career as a police reporter for the '' Constitution-Press '' in Lawton . In 1962 , at the age of twenty , he joined the Associated Press 's Oklahoma City bureau . In 1966 , he joined the Associated Press 's Washington , D.C. office to work as a deskman , and from 1967 to 1971 he was a member of an Associated Press special assignment team focused mainly on investigative reporting . In March 1975 , he began working for the '' Los Angeles Times '' in their Washington bureau . In 1978 , he won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles he wrote for the '' Los Angeles Times '' about unsafe dams across the United States . He has also been credited with breaking the news that President Richard Nixon was going to resign . He earned the 1980 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for coverage of the U.S. energy crisis . In 1988 , he joined Newsday as their Washington bureau chief , where he oversaw a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about the Persian Gulf War in 1991 . In 1997 , he was part of a large team of reporters that won another Pulitzer Prize for a story about the crash of TWA Flight 800 , for spot news reporting . He retired in 2002
TWA Flight 800
TWA Flight 800
Gaylord Shaw