1972 | The Pulitzer Prizes

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front row, left to right: B. Bradlee, J. Pulitzer, W. McGill, N. Noyes, S. Meyer; back row, left to right: J. Hohenberg, J. Cowles, L. Hills, W. Dickinson, P. Day, R. Donovan, J. Reston, V. Royster, W. Carroll

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Joseph Pulitzer, Jr, chair; John Hohenberg, administrator

Robert J. Donovan

Job title

associate editor

First name

Robert J.

Last name

Donovan

Years

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Robert J. Donovan, 90, the Author of 'PT-109'

By Anthony Ramirez

August 10, 2003

Robert J. Donovan, a ''shoe leather'' newspaper reporter without a college education who became a Washington correspondent, best-selling author and presidential historian, died on Friday at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. A longtime resident of Washington, he moved to Florida in 2001. He was 90.

Employer

Los Angeles Times

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William B. Dickinson

Job title

executive editor

First name

William B.

Last name

Dickinson

Years

(Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin)

Employer

The Philadelphia Bulletin

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Price Day

Job title

editor-in-chief

First name

Price

Last name

Day

Years

A native of Plainview, TX, Price Day (1907-1978) was graduated from Princeton University in 1928. Following a variegated career as a freelance cartoonist and writer of science fiction & children's stories (most notably the young adult novel Well, About the Penguin [Simon & Schuster, 1939]) and journeyman reporter with the Fort Lauderdale News, he briefly served as city editor of the Fort Lauderdale Times in 1942.

Employer

The Baltimore Sun

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John Cowles

Job title

editorial chairman

First name

John

Last name

Cowles

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John Cowles Jr., 82, Dies; Led Minneapolis Newspapers

by Bruce Weber, March 19, 2012, The New York Times

John Cowles Jr., a Minneapolis newspaper executive and philanthropist whose support for arts, sports and entertainment helped elevate the Twin Cities' cultural community to national prominence, died on Saturday at home in Minneapolis. He was 82.

The cause was lung cancer, his son Jay said.

Employer

The Minneapolis Star & Tribune

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Wallace Caroll

Job title

editor and publisher

First name

Wallace

Last name

Caroll

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Wallace Carroll, Publisher And Editor, Is Dead at 95

Wallace Carroll, a retired newspaper editor and publisher who campaigned against the Vietnam War and led his paper to a Pulitzer Prize for environmental reporting, died on Sunday in a nursing home in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 95.

Employer

Winston (N.C.) Journal

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Benjamin Bradlee

Job title

executive editor

First name

Benjamin

Last name

Bradlee

Years

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Ben Bradlee’s Charmed, Charming Life

By David Carr

October 22, 2014

Civilians, people who don’t think the toppling of a sitting American president with newspaper articles is one of humankind’s lasting achievements, will read encomiums to Ben Bradlee like this one and wonder: What’s the big deal?

Employer

The Washington Post

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