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1987 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: J. Hoge, H. Gray. M. Sovern, R. Christopher, W. Phillips, M. Greenfield; back row, left to right: R. Baker, R. Wilkins, M. Gartner, B. Osborne, C. Sitton, F. Yu, C. Saikowski, E. Roberts, D. Laventhol, C.K. McClatchy, R. Maynard (Credit: Joe Pineiro/Columbia University)

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
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Charlotte Saikowski

Job title
chief, Washington bureau
First name
Charlotte
Last name
Saikowski
Location
Boston, Mass.

(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

C.K. McClatchy

Job title
editor and president
First name
C.K.
Last name
McClatchy
Location
Sacramento, Calif.
Years

(Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times)

C.K. McClatchy, 62; Head of Chain of Newspapers

By Edward J. Boyer

April 17, 1989

C.K. McClatchy, chairman of the McClatchy chain of newspapers in California, Washington state and Alaska, died Sunday after collapsing while jogging in Sacramento.

A soft-spoken man known for his abiding independence, McClatchy, 62, was jogging in William Land Park, near a school bearing his family's name, when he apparently suffered a heart attack, said McClatchy Newspapers President Erwin Potts.

Employer
McClatchy Newspapers
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1

James F. Hoge

Job title
publisher
First name
James F.
Last name
Hoge

(Current biography as of March 2016)

Employer
New York Daily News
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1

Robert C. Maynard

Job title
editor and publisher
First name
Robert C.
Last name
Maynard
Location
Oakland, Calif.

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Robert C. Maynard, 56, Publisher Who Helped Minority Journalists

By Bruce Lambert

August 19, 1993

Robert C. Maynard, a trailblazer for minority journalists who was the first black editor and owner of a major daily newspaper in the United States, died at his home in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday. He was 56.

He died of prostate cancer, a family spokesman said.

Employer
The Tribune
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1

Russell Baker

Job title
columnist
First name
Russell
Last name
Baker

(Courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica)

Russell Baker, in full Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925, Loudoun County, Virginia, U.S.), American newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and political satirist, who used good-natured humour to comment slyly and trenchantly on a wide range of social and political matters.

Employer
The New York Times
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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
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1

Meg Greenfield

Job title
editorial page editor
First name
Meg
Last name
Greenfield

Post Editor, Newsweek Columnist Meg Greenfield Dies

By J.Y. Smith

Special to The Washington Post

Friday, May 14, 1999; Page A1

Meg Greenfield, 68, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the editorial page of The Washington Post and a columnist for Newsweek magazine, died of cancer yesterday at her home in Washington.

Employer
The Washington Post
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1