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Bob Wyrick is an American investigative journalist.

• 1979 George Polk Award
• 1982 Pullitzer Prize finalist
• 1983 Hillman Prize (shared with Patrick Owens) for "The Disability Nightmare" that ran in Newsday
• Nieman Fellow (Harvard)
• Broun Award

Some sources

• http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/1982
• http://books.google.com/books?id=k4oWCQ1nEKYC&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&dq=%22Bob+Wyrick%22+Newsday&source=bl&ots=APbAZhzW2_&sig=RnqykahEAkOeSOxT2vDZeaC0jmk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EVFtT5aNDMPyggeN5qVr&ved=0CC8Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Bob%20Wyrick%22%20Newsday&f=false
• http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1973/5/14/stop-the-presses-pthe-last-thing/
• Broun Award http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19680220&id=4pAyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DOoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2891,817427
• Broun Award http://migrate.newsguild.org/index.php?ID=986
• biographical info http://archive.org/stream/reformoffederalc11unit/reformoffederalc11unit_djvu.txt
• Hillman Prize http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/honorees?page=6&order=field_prize_year_value&sort=asc
• Les Payne called him "one of the finest investigative reporters in the country" http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YXwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z_UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3791,2375943&dq=bob-wyrick&hl=en (not sure if this is an independent source, at some point I think Les Payne may have worked at Newsday. Don't know if it was the same period Wyrick did.)
• George Polk Award http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Polk/Previous.aspx#1979

ProQuest sources

• Obituary "Patrick Owens, Former Newsday Columnist, 72" written by Saul Friedman ran in Newsday on 26 Feb 2002
• "Newspaper Guild Names 21 for Page One Awards" New York Times [New York, N.Y] 23 June 1980: B.3.