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  Los Angeles Times Wins Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing on Homelessness and Mental Illness
We are thrilled-but not surprised-that the Pulitzer Committee has awarded Bob Raksin and Bob Sipchen, the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing.
In the words of the committee, “their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas” facing people with mental illness who live on the streets.
Last summer, NAMI also honored the Los Angeles Times with its 2001 National Media Award for Outstanding Editorial Writing, with specific recognition given to Alex Raksin, for addressing mental illness issues with fairness, sensitivity and accuracy.
www.namiscc.org /newsletters/April02/LATimes.htm   (506 words)

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction.
1929: Louis Isaac Jaffe, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, for his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it.
Bruce Dold, Chicago Tribune, for his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Editorial_Writing   (1650 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Ralph McGill (1898-1969)
In 1959, at the age of sixty-one, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
In his senior year he was suspended after writing a column in the student newspaper that suggested wrongdoing because Vanderbilt had not erected a student lounge, as stipulated in the will of a professor who had bequeathed the school $20,000.
It was these editorials for which McGill won the Pulitzer Prize in 1959.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2769   (1444 words)

  
 Nomination of Linda Valdez for the Pulitzer Prize
The editorials nominated for this year's Pulitzer Prize for Editorial writing represent specific calls for reform during the 2002 Legislative session.
Her writing drew on Mexican folklore and a deep sense of place to draw readers gracefully to complex issue.
This nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing represents careful research, compelling writing and a strong call for members of this state and this nation to further the cause of justice both locally and internationally.
www.azcentral.com /specials/special30/articles/0407pulitzernomination-ON.html   (982 words)

  
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Paul Greenberg, one of the most respected and honored commentators in America, is the editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Greenberg won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1978 and 1986.
Editorial page editor for the Pine Bluff Commercial in Arkansas from 1962 until 1992 -- except for a hiatus as a Chicago Daily News editorial writer in 1966-67 -- Greenberg lectures nationwide and regularly provides political analysis on Arkansas network television.
www.tms.tribune.com /htmlmail/consumer/profiles/bios/greenbergbio.htm   (374 words)

  
 UC Davis: Spotlight: Pulitzer pals
This year's Pulitzer for the Bee is not the first time the newspaper has turned to UC Davis expertise in its award-winning reporting.
Then-Bee science writer Deborah Blum (now on the journalism faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison) won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1992 for her stories on the ethical and moral questions surrounding primates in research, which included many interviews with UC Davis faculty and staff.
After the Pulitzer announcement, Lund and Null were quick to point out that the CALVIN model is the product of several years of work by many UC Davis faculty and staff and almost 20 students from five graduate programs.
www.ucdavis.edu /spotlight/0405/pulitzer.html   (1063 words)

  
 About Don Wycliff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
During his tenure as editor, the Tribune editorial page won one Pulitzer Prize, was a finalist for another and took several other major awards as well, including two Distinguished Writing Awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE).
Wycliff was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1996, and in 1997 won the ASNE Distinguished Writing Award for editorials.
He has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes and currently is chairman of the ASNE Writing Awards Committee.
www.op.org /DLC/opcomnet/2005OPCOMNETmeeting/AboutDonwycliff.htm   (338 words)

  
 Chicago Tribune | Tribune editorial writer wins Pulitzer
Grumman credited her prize to the work of investigative reporters Steve Mills, Maurice Possley and Ken Armstrong, who spent years uncovering problems in the capital punishment system and worked to free some former death-row inmates.
Editorial Page Editor R. Bruce Dold said, "This is an incredible honor to Cornelia, but it isn't a great surprise to anybody who has worked with her on the Editorial Board the last few years.
The editorial cartooning award went to David Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for work ``executed with a distinctive style and sense of humor.'' It was the newspaper's second Pulitzer; its first was won by Horsey in 1999.
www.chicagotribune.com /news/local/chi-030407pulitzers,0,5127905.story?coll=chi-news-hed   (1053 words)

  
 Carleton College Alum Wins Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Northfield, Minn.-- Editorial writer Jonathan Capehart, a 1989 graduate of Carleton College, and his colleagues on the editorial board of the New York Daily News have won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
In a news story published in the April 13 issue of the Daily News, editorial page editor Michael Goodwin gave top honors to Capehart and fellow editorial writer Michael Aronson, who were responsible for the investigative work that resulted in 14 published editorials, 10 of which were submitted to the Pulitzer Board for prize consideration.
Capehart noted that the editorials were "the end product of an immense amount of behind-the-scenes work," including months of investigative reporting that involved making endless phone calls, digging through paperwork and conducting personal interviews.
www.carleton.edu /campus/newsbureau/pr/capehart.html   (349 words)

  
 Online Features - Bee's Philp wins editorial-writing Pulitzer - sacbee.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is the fourth Pulitzer Prize for The Bee and the first the newspaper has won since 1992, when it was awarded two Pulitzers.
The Los Angeles Times won two prizes, one for public service for its coverage of "deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital," the Pulitzer board said, and another for international reporting by Kim Murphy for coverage of Russia's struggles to cope with terrorism, recession and political change.
Philp's editorials eventually led to suggestions by key legislators that the idea be studied, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration has since agreed to assess the possibility of storing the water elsewhere.
www.sacbee.com /content/online/story/12676613p-13529531c.html   (1576 words)

  
 Editor Cheri Matthews: 'Outrage, Passion & Uncommon Sense'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Michael Gartner won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1997 when he was editor and co-owner of The Daily Tribune in Ames, Iowa, a paper about the size of the Tracy Press.
I met him shortly afterward when I took an editorial writing course at the Poynter Institute in Florida.
Editorial writers are just too afraid to offend readers today, he said.
www.tracypress.com /mt_archive/2005/10/outrage_passion.html   (384 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Daniel Henninger Biography
He was appointed assistant editor of the editorial page in 1983 and chief editorial writer and senior assistant editor in October 1986, with daily responsibility for the "Review & Outlook" columns.
Henninger was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1987 and 1996, and shared in the Journal's Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of the attacks on September 11.
He won the 1995 American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing, and he was a finalist in that award in 1985, 1986 and 1993.
www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/dhenninger/bio.html   (277 words)

  
 Arts & Sciences and Trinity College - Duke University : News : Alumni : Cornelia Grumman
So began a February 19, 2002, editorial in the Chicago Tribune by Cornelia Grumman, one of a series of commentaries on the death-penalty system in Illinois and elsewhere in the United States that earned Grumman the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
The editorials followed an investigation by Tribune reporters that prompted then-Governor George Ryan to declare a moratorium on capital punishment that is still in effect under his successor, Rod Blagojevich.
She is one of seven editorial writers, and specializes in education, social policy, juvenile justice, and the death penalty.
www.aas.duke.edu /news/alumni/grumman.php   (738 words)

  
 Working with Editorial Boards (November 2003)
While the editorial boards are made up of a core team, reporters from all sections of the paper are invited to attend the board meetings, especially if the meeting is related to a topic on which a reporter is writing.
There is a "firewall between editorial board members and reporters," cautions Dold, so don’t expect editorial coverage just because you met with the editorial board -- and even if you meet with the editorial board, there is no guarantee that the meeting will result in a printed editorial.
To contact editorial board editors, there was a 100% consensus that this be done via email (a change from three years ago, according to Clark, when most editors wanted letters or faxes).
www.publicity.org /monthlynov03.htm   (911 words)

  
 Writing and Editing: Opinions and Tips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Eleven award-winning editorial writers draw on their own experience and that of their colleagues to present a master class in opinion writing.
Learn ways in which reporting for an editorial is different from reporting for the news pages; why the forum function — letters to the editor, cartoons and columns — may be as important as editorials; and how to design appealing opinion pages.
Aspiring editorial writers will gain journalistic skills needed for effective communication of their opinions as they read through this helpful booklet.
www.jea.org /resources/bookstore/writeeditopiniontips.html   (599 words)

  
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www.leg.state.vt.us /docs/2002/journal/hj010419.doc   (8119 words)

  
 Fuller, Plotnick elected to Board of Trustees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He was vice president and editor of the Tribune from 1989 to 1993, executive editor from 1987 to 1989, and editor of the editorial page of the newspaper from 1986 to 1989.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1986.
He began writing editorials for the newspaper in 1978.
chronicle.uchicago.edu /940714/trustees.shtml   (505 words)

  
 McClatchy.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
As an associate editor, he writes editorials, columns and Sunday Forum section articles about regional planning, water use issues, agriculture, forestry, energy, health care and telecommunications.
Before joining the editorial board, Philp was a staff writer in the Bee's newsroom for five years, covering a variety of subjects, including medicine.
Seaman received the prize for a dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street.
www.mcclatchy.com /about/pulitzer   (612 words)

  
 obitpage.com :: great obits archive :: G   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
His editorials supporting Marion Barry in the 1978 Democratic mayoral primary were credited by many political observers with giving Barry the narrow margin of victory that launched his career as the District's chief executive.
Geyelin as an editorial writer and later became deputy editorial page editor, said the shifting of the editorial policy from pro- to antiwar was undertaken carefully, with awareness of the costs and consequences that it might have.
Geyelin was editorial page editor, "The Post was the sharpest, clearest and keenest voice on the collection of issues known as Watergate, concerning Nixon and his abuse of government powers," Rosenfeld said.
www.obitpage.com /obits/g/geyelin_philip.html   (1207 words)

  
 newsobserver.com | Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It was Bogdanich's second Pulitzer: He won in 1988 for specialized reporting while at The Wall Street Journal for a series on faulty testing by medical laboratories.
Two prizes were awarded for international reporting: Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times for her reporting from Russia and Newsday's Dele Olojede for his look at Rwanda a decade after its genocidal civil war.
Each prize is worth $10,000, except for public service, which is recognized with a gold medal.
newsobserver.com /24hour/nation/story/2282124p-10471166c.html   (1023 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize-Winning UF Journalism Professor Davis Dies: From The Tampa Tribune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
GAINESVILLE - Horance Gibbs ``Buddy'' Davis Jr., a former University of Florida journalism professor and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, died Sunday of a heart attack.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for distinguished editorial writing.
Davis was recognized as a Distinguished Faculty Member by Florida Blue Key in 1965 and was identified by The Associated Press Managing Editors as one of the ``10 Good J- Profs'' in the nation in 1983.
www.tampatrib.com /floridametronews/MGBQTRPY0YD.html   (313 words)

  
 WONDER LAND  By DANIEL HENNINGER
He was appointed assistant editor of the editorial page in 1983 and chief editorial writer and senior assistant editor in October 1986, with daily responsibility for the "Review and Outlook" columns.
In the writings of Augustine, arguably the most complex mind Christianity has produced, the exercise of deep faith carries with it the possibility of what I would call a "high" experience in one's pursuit of and relationship to God.
In fact, Ratzinger's beef is mainly with the post-Vatican II academic theologians who thought they should be writing, or rewriting, the Church's rulebook based on whatever new theories spun out of their heads -- not the bishops, the Pope or even the church faithful.
www.anglicanuse.org /wonderland.htm   (1107 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, awarded since 1917.
Fremont Tribune, for the editorial entitled "The Gentlemen from Nebraska."
Detroit Free Press, for an editorial on "The Cause of a Strike," impartially and clearly analyzing the responsibility of both labor and management for a local union's unauthorized strike in July, 1954, which rendered 45,000 Chrysler Corporation workers idle and unpaid.
www.nndb.com /honors/505/000079268   (1345 words)

  
 James H. Ottaway Sr. Endowed Professorship - Bernard L. Stein
Stein's most impressive accomplishment is being a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1998.
He served as chair of the Pulitzer Prize commentary jury in 1993 and as a Pulitzer Prize juror for editorial writing in 1992.
He was part of a team of scholars editing Mark Twain's writing for publication by the University of California Press for 12 years after graduate school.
www.newpaltz.edu /ottaway/stein.html   (535 words)

  
 SUNY New Paltz Grad Among Pulitzer Prize Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
NEW PALTZ -- Alex Storozynski, a 1983 graduate of the State University of New York at New Paltz, was among the winners of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
The News' editorial board began a campaign to rescue the theater, which is now owned by the state and run by a foundation.
A series of editorials exposing financial mismanagement at the foundation prompted the Attorney General to file a civil suit to try to remove the board of directors, and led state officials to take a more active role in revitalizing the landmark theater.
www.newpaltz.edu /news/archive/1999/i023.html   (257 words)

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