Pulitzer's New York World Reborn as Online News Site

New York World staff talk about using digital media to pursue long-term investigative projects. (4:09) ---- Last fall, a private bus company operating under a city contract permitted its passengers, primarily Orthodox Jews, to enforce a religious tradition?in order to prevent physical contact between the sexes, women were required to sit in the back of the bus. The New York Times, New York Post and CBS 2 ran the story, which was later picked up by the BBC and Belgian and Israeli news outlets. But it was an enterprising reporter from The New York World?a new Graduate School of Journalism endeavor?who first broke this story of segregation. More: news.columbia.edu