1979 | The Pulitzer Prizes

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Board lander photo caption

front row, left to right: J. Reston, W. McGill, J. Pulitzer, L. Hills, C. Kirkpatrick; back row, left to right: J. Cowles, O. Elliott, B. Bradlee, T. Winship, J Hughes, R. Leonard, E. Patterson, W. Phillips, H. Hays, R. Baker

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Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., chair; Richard T. Baker, secretary

Howard H. Hays

Job title

editor and publisher

First name

Howard H.

Last name

Hays

Years

(Courtesy of The Press-Democrat.)

RIVERSIDE: Former P-E publisher and editor Tim Hays dies

Pulitzer Prize winner who led the newspaper for decades won landmark First Amendment cases

From Staff Reports

October 14, 2011

Howard H. "Tim" Hays Jr., the Harvard-educated lawyer who chose a newspaperman's life and led what became The Press-Enterprise into national prominence as a Pulitzer Prize-winning advocate of open government and defender of the First Amendment, died Friday in St. Louis. He was 94.

Employer

Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise

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Osborn Elliott

Job title

dean, Graduate School of Journalism

First name

Osborn

Last name

Elliott

Years

"When I think of Oz Elliott, I think of a person who embodies all the qualities of a good citizen—a practical man of high ideals, a courageous man who exercises self-restraint, a worldly man who loves his city." —David Dinkins, Newsweek, 09/27/08

(Article courtesy of The New York Times.)

Osborn Elliott, Father of Newsweek’s Rebirth, Dies at 83

By Michael T. Kaufman

September 28, 2008

Employer

Columbia University

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John Cowles

Job title

editorial chairman

First name

John

Last name

Cowles

Years

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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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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