Pride, Mike

Mike Pride has been editor of the Concord Monitor since 1983. Prior to that, he served as its managing editor. Under his editorship the Monitor has won the New England Newspaper of the Year Award 19 times, as well as numerous national awards for excellence. The paper has been cited by Time magazine and the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the best papers in the country.

Before joining the Monitor, Pride was city editor of the Clearwater Sun and the Tallahassee Democrat. A graduate of the University of South Florida, he served as a Russian linguist in the Army during the late 1960s and began his journalism career as a sports writer at the Tampa Tribune.

Pride was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1984-85. He won the National Press Foundation's editor of the year award in 1987 for directing the Monitor's coverage of the Challenger disaster and later the Yankee Quill Award for contributions to New England journalism.

In 2004, Pride was Weinstein scholar-in-residence at Gettysburg College, where he co-taught a course in presidential politics. He has also been a lecturer and tour guide at the Civil War Institute at the college. In 2005, he was a Hoover media fellow at Stanford University.

Pride is a former chairman of the Small Newspapers Committee of the American Society of Newspapers Editors and also served on the society's writing awards board. He is a member of the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award committee at Colby College and the Sarah Josepha Hale Award committee in Newport, NH.

He is the co-author of My Brave Boys, a Civil War history, and Too Dead to Die, the memoir of a Bataan Death March survivor, and the co-editor of The New Hampshire Century.

Pride joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1999.