Skip to main content
Board lander photo
1985 Pulitzer Prize Board
Board lander photo caption

left to right: E. Roberts. O. Elliott, J. Pulitzer, T. Winship, J. Hoge, M. Sovern, R. Leonard, E. Patterson, M. Gartner, H. Hays, R. Christopher, C.K. McClatchy (absent from photo: H. Gray, W. Raspberry) Credit: Joe Pineiro/Columbia University

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

Richard H. Leonard

Job title
editor and senior vice president
First name
Richard H.
Last name
Leonard

(Courtesy of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Longtime Journal editor Dick Leonard dies at 92

By Meg Jones

May 18, 2014

Richard H. Leonard always knew he wanted to be a newspaperman — correction, make that editor — ever since he worked on his fifth-grade newspaper back in Ridgewood, N.J.

And he did just that.

In 1967, Leonard was named the sixth editor of The Milwaukee Journal. He served longer than any other editor in the history of the newspaper, with the exception of Lucius W. Nieman, who founded it in 1882.

Employer
The Milwaukee Journal
Ordering weight
1

Howard H. Hays

Job title
editor and publisher
First name
Howard H.
Last name
Hays

(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

Hanna H. Gray

Job title
president
First name
Hanna H.
Last name
Gray

(Courtesy of the University of Chicago)

Hanna Holborn Gray was president of the University of Chicago from July 1, 1978, through June 30, 1993.

Mrs. Gray is a historian with special interests in the history of humanism,  political and historical thought, and church history and politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation.

Employer
University of Chicago
Ordering weight
1

Osborn Elliott

Job title
dean, Graduate School of Journalism
First name
Osborn
Last name
Elliott

"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
Ordering weight
1

Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram

Citation
For reporting by Mark J. Thompson which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built by Bell Helicopter -a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters pending their modification.
Tags: 1985
Categories: Public Service
Publication
Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram