Author: Paul Pringle

Bad City is a true story about scandal, corruption and coverups.
“This is a book that reminds us of the importance of journalists and why we need writers willing to take on big names and institutions,”  said a review in goodreads.com.
Author Paul Pringle, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, uses high-caliber investigative journalism to delve deeply into two major scandals at University of Southern California that are enmeshed in coverups and crimes that at times seem beyond belief, according to the review It added: “This is the riveting story of the hard-work of inspiring reporters who persistently strove to find the truth, amidst a nebulous web of cover-ups, and then succeeded in achieving a remarkable reporting expose.”
Packed with details never before disclosed, Pringle goes behind the scenes to reveal how he and his fellow reporters triumphed over the Los Angeles city’s debased institutions. “This is L.A. at its darkest and investigative journalism at its brightest,” said the review.