Bruce V. Bigelow

*A memorial service for Bruce is planned at the First Unitarian Church on Friday, July 13th at 5:30 p.m.* The church is at 4190 Front St., 92103, San Diego, CA. In lieu of flowers, the family asks consideration of a donation to the Nature Conservancy. Bruce V. Bigelow, part of the San Diego Union-Tribune team that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, died on June 29 after a brief illness. He was 63. At the Union-Tribune, Bigelow was known for in-depth business coverage. His 14-part 1997 series about a North County startup, “The Toymaker,” required more than 100 interviews conducted over a two-and-a-half year period. That narrative won a National Headliner Award and is part of the nonfiction narrative journalism library at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. His investigation of the casualties suffered by workers of San Diego’s Titan Corp. in war-torn Iraq, “In Harm’s Way,” won the Society of Business Editors and Writers’ award for enterprise reporting in 2006. That same year, he shared a Pulitzer for uncovering how Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham traded legislative favors for bribes. “I wish I had more reporters like Bruce,” said Jim Watters who, as business editor, supervised Bigelow from 2001 until 2008. “He was thorough and dogged in his reporting, and always took great care in the writing of the stories. “He was a great colleague too, quick to welcome a new person to the team and always supportive of his fellow reporters’ work.” Born in Denver to Dr. Eugene and Alyce Bigelow, Bruce Bigelow was introduced to hiking and climbing as a boy, and these became lifelong passions. A 1977 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with an English literature degree, he began his reporting career at a Fairbanks, Alaska, television station. After earning a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University, Bigelow reported for the Dubuque (Ia.) Telegraph Herald and the Kansas City Times. He met his future wife, Lynn O’Shaughnessy, at