front row, left to right: J. Cowles, R. Wilkins, M. Sovern, J. Pulitzer, W. Raspberry, L. Hills; back row, left to right: R. Baker, E. Patterson, R. Leonard, C. Saikowski, O. Elliott, J. Hughes, H. Hays, W. Phillips, H. Gray, C. Kirkpatrick, T. Winship
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(Courtesy of The Press-Democrat.)
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.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Peter Kihss
September 4, 1981
Richard T. Baker, a professor of journalism at Columbia University for 34 years and retired secretary of the Pulitzer Prize Board, died of cancer yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 68 years old.
(Courtesy of George Mason University)
Roger Wilkins
L.L.B, 1956, University of Michigan
B.A, 1953, University of Michigan
(Courtesy of Brigham Young University)
John Hughes was editor of the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City from 1997 to 2006, and returned to BYU as a professor of communications in 2007. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of The Christian Science Monitor.
Hughes has also served as U.S. assistant secretary of state and as assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, and he has chaired presidential and congressional commissions on international broadcasting.
Lee Hills, 93, Knight Ridder Official and Pulitzer Winner
By FELICITY BARRINGER
Published: February 5, 2000
John Cowles Jr., 82, Dies; Led Minneapolis Newspapers
by Bruce WeberMarch 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.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Robert D. McFadden
January 13, 2013
Eugene C. Patterson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of The Atlanta Constitution during the civil rights conflicts of the 1960s and later the managing editor of The Washington Post and editor of The St. Petersburg Times in Florida, died on Saturday in St. Petersburg. He was 89.
(Courtesy of The Washington Post)
April 14, 2000
Charlotte Saikowski, 73, the Washington bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor from 1983 until she retired in 1990, died of a heart ailment April 8 at Lynn House, a Christian Science nursing home in Alexandria. She lived in Washington.
Ms. Saikowski joined the Monitor in 1962 and came to its Washington bureau a decade later. She had previous assignments as bureau chief in Tokyo and Moscow and as chief editorial writer.
