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=== Notable reporting === ==== Richeson murder and execution ==== The New England Historical Society wrote of the coverage of the 1911 murder of Avis Linnell by [[Clarence Richeson]], saying, '"the crusading newspaper editor of ''The Boston Post'', Edwin Grozier, brought him to grief...[putting] his reporters on the story. They found Richeson bought cyanide from a druggist in Newtown, Mass...the ''Post'' demanded a police investigation into the death of Avis Linnell."'<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-06-22|title=Avis Linnell, Murdered by Her Minister, Inspires 'An American Tragedy'|url=https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/avis-linnell-murdered-minister/|access-date=2021-01-02|website=New England Historical Society|language=en-US}}</ref> Richeson ultimately confessed, and was executed. ==== Charles Ponzi scheme ==== In 1920, under the leadership of his son, [[Richard Grozier]], who had been day-to-day head of the paper since 1920, the ''Post'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service after exposing [[Charles Ponzi]] as a fraud.<ref name="Zuckoff">{{cite book|last=Zuckoff|first=Mitchell|url=https://archive.org/details/ponzisschemetrue00zuck|title=Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend|publisher=Random House|year=2005|isbn=1-4000-6039-7|location=New York|author-link=Mitchell Zuckoff|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The 1921 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Public Service|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/boston-post|access-date=2021-01-02|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en}}</ref> The newspaper expose covered individuals with political and financial ties to the scheme. Many community members, including authorities, did not believe the allegations, made during the papers investigation, until "the bubble burst," leaving millions of dollars in public money lost, as a large Trust company failed.<ref name=":1" />
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