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
(Courtesty of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book)
Gene Roberts, a former executive editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, achieved national fame for leading the paper to 17 Pulitzer Prizes in an 18-year span. He was widely respected for his high standards in journalism and ability to run a newspaper. A former reporter of his once said, “He’s the ideal editor that a reporter dreams about.”
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.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Douglas Martin
March 15, 2002
Thomas Winship, who as editor of The Boston Globe for two decades propelled the newspaper to regional leadership and national stature, in part through tireless coverage of the court-ordered school busing that split the city in the 1970's, died yesterday in Boston. He was 81 and lived in Lincoln, Mass.
He had been under care for lymphoma at Massachusetts General Hospital, said his son Laurence.