It’s the birthday of Russell Baker (1925-2019, #nicelonglife), the celebrated newspaper columnist, humorist, and host of PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre who won one Pulitzer for commentary and another Pulitzer for biography and who later served on the Pulitzer Prize board. (Ah HA.) Baker was born into extreme poverty in Loudoun County, Virginia. When he was five, [...]
It’s the birthday of celebrated journalist J. Anthony Lukas (1933-1997), whose meticulous, tenacious, intelligent reporting brought him not one but two Pulitzer Prizes. (In your FACE, everyone who has won only one measly Pulitzer.) Lukas’ first Pulitzer was in 1968 for a New York Times article, “The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick,” which investigated the [...]
It’s the birthday of Joseph Pulitzer, the Hungarian-born newspaperman whose influence largely made American newspapers what they are today. He was also the first to establish a university-level school of journalism and founded the Nobel Prize. (Okay, no. But apparently a lot of people think this. There is a statement at the Pulitzer web site [...]