Jim Dwyer
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Jim Dwyer is an American
United States
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 journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times
The New York Times
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. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News
New York Daily News
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before joining the Times. He earned a bachelor's degree in general science from Fordham University
Fordham University
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 in 1979 and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University
Columbia University
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 in 1980.
He also developed a 50 kW photovoltaic solar panel system for his cooperative apartment building in Manhattan
Manhattan
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, the first of its kind in New York City
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.

Career

In 1992, Dwyer was a member of a team at Newsday
Newsday
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that won the Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
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 for Spot News Reporting, and in 1995, as a columnist with Newsday, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
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. Dwyer is the author or co-author of four books, mentioned below:

102 Minutes

His latest, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, co-written with Kevin Flynn
Kevin Flynn
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, an editor at The New York Times Company
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, was a 2005 National Book Award
National Book Award
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 finalist. The book chronicled the 102 minutes that the twin towers of the World Trade Center
World Trade Center
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 stood after the attacks of September 11, 2001 began. The sources included interviews with survivors, tapes of police and fire operations, 911 calls, and other material obtained under freedom of information
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 requests including 20,000 pages of tape transcripts, oral histories, and other documents.

Actual Innocence and Two Seconds Under the World

Dwyer is also the co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted, which examined the causes of wrongful convictions. He is co-author of Two Seconds Under the World, an account of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center
World Trade Center
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 that explored the early signs of fundamentalist terrorism, and poor coordination by investigating agencies, including the FBI.

Subway Lives

He is the author of Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York Subways, a work that follows the lives of six New Yorkers and is set on the day the last graffiti
Graffiti
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-covered train was in service. Much of the material for the book came from his job as the subway columnist from 1986 to 1989 for New York Newsday.

Solar Panels

Dwyer developed a 50 kW photovoltaic system at his home in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

, a 217-unit [cooperative apartment building. The project, which took nearly four years, is believed to be the first of its kind at a private cooperative in the city. Most of the cost was paid for with state incentives and tax credits; the balance was financed for 10 years with a low-interest loan that will be repaid for roughly the same amount that the building would have paid for commercial electricity. The panels are guaranteed for 25 years.
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