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1982 Pulitzer Prize Board
Board lander photo caption

front row, left to right: H. Gray, J. Pulitzer, L. Hills, M. Sovern, R. Christopher; back row, left to right: J. Cowles, W. Raspberry, O. Elliott, R. Leonard, H. Hays, E. Patterson, W. Phillips, T. Winship, D. Laventhol, W. McIlwain, C. Saikowski, R. Wilkins

Board Lander Sub Title
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., chair; Robert Christopher, secretary

Howard H. Hays

Job title
editor and co-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. "€œTim" 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
Ordering weight
1

Lee Hills

Job title
editorial chairman emeritus
First name
Lee
Last name
Hills
Years
Employer
Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc.
Ordering weight
1

John Cowles, Jr.

Job title
president
First name
John
Last name
Cowles, Jr.
Years

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.

Employer
Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company
Photo
John Cowles, Jr.
Ordering weight
1

Eugene C. Patterson

Job title
editor and president
First name
Eugene C.
Last name
Patterson

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Eugene C. Patterson, Editor and Civil Rights Crusader, Dies at 89

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.

Employer
St. Petersburg Times
Ordering weight
1

Robert C. Christopher

Job title
secretary of the Board
First name
Robert C.
Last name
Christopher

Author Robert C. Christopher, Editor At Time, Newsweek
Chicago Tribune, June 15, 1992
By Kenan Heise

Robert C. Christopher, 68, an author and former editor at Time and Newsweek magazines, had been secretary of the Pulitzer Prize Board and administrator of Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University since 1981. A resident of Old Lyme, Conn., he died of emphysema Sunday in Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, New London, Conn.

Employer
The Pulitzer Prizes
Photo
Robert C. Christopher
Ordering weight
1

David A. Laventhol

Job title
publisher and chief executive officer, Newsday
First name
David A.
Last name
Laventhol
Years

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

David Laventhol, Publisher on Both Coasts, Dies at 81

By Dennis Hevesi

April 9, 2015

David A. Laventhol, a former publisher of The Los Angeles Times and Newsday who made a journalistically acclaimed but financially doomed attempt to break into the New York City newspaper market by starting New York Newsday in 1985, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81.

The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his son, Peter, said.

Employer
and group vice president, Times Mirror Company
Ordering weight
1

Charlotte Saikowski

Job title
chief editorial writer
First name
Charlotte
Last name
Saikowski
Location
Boston, MA
Years

(Courtesy of The Washington Post)

Charlotte Saikowski, 73

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.

Employer
The Christian Science Monitor
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1