fiction.wikisort.org - WriterDon Whitehead (April 8, 1908 in Inman, Virginia - January 12, 1981) was an American journalist. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom. He won the 1950 George Polk Award for wire service reporting.
American journalist
For other people with the same name, see Donald Whitehead (disambiguation).
He was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.[1]
Education
Whitehead studied at University of Kentucky from 1926 to 1928.[2]
Career
Kentucky
Beginning in 1928, Whitehead worked for the newspapers Lafollette Press and the Daily Enterprise in Harlan, Kentucky, and he covered the Harlan County War.
World War II
Beginning in 1935, he worked for the Associated Press, covering World War II. His beats included coverage of the Eighth Army in Egypt, in September 1942, after which he was transferred to cover the American Army in Algeria. He then covered the Allied invasion of Sicily at Gela, with the First Infantry Division, the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno, and the Italian campaign. He landed at Anzio in January 1944, then went to London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day (June 6, 1944), with the 16th Regiment, of the First Infantry Division, and covered the push from the beachhead, Operation Cobra at Saint-Lô, and the pursuit across France. He got the first story on the Liberation of Paris and covered the U.S. First Army's push into Belgium and into Germany, and the crossing of the Rhine River. He also covered the meeting of American and Russian troops on the Elbe River.[3]
Korean War
Whitehead covered the Korean War in 1950.[4] He won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for "The Great Deception", his account of a secret trip to the war zone by President-elect Dwight Eisenhower.
Stateside
He was Washington bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune, in 1956. In 1934, he worked for a year as a columnist for the Knoxville News-Sentinel before leaving to work as an editor for the Associated Press.[5][6] His book, The FBI Story was adapted into a 1959 film.
Papers
His papers are held at the University of Tennessee.[7]
Personal life
Don Whitehead married Marie Patterson on December 20, 1928. They had a daughter, Ruth, and two grandchildren.[8]
Works
- Posthumous
References
External links
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting |
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As Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International (1942–1947) |
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1942–1947 |
- Laurence Edmund Allen (1942)
- Ira Wolfert (1943)
- Daniel De Luce (1944)
- Mark S. Watson (1945)
- Homer Bigart (1946)
- Eddy Gilmore (1947)
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As Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1948–present) |
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1948–1949 |
- Paul W. Ward (1948)
- Price Day (1949)
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1950–1959 |
- Edmund Stevens (1950)
- Keyes Beech (1951 shared)
- Homer Bigart (1951 shared)
- Marguerite Higgins (1951 shared)
- Relman Morin (1951 shared)
- Fred Sparks (1951 shared)
- Don Whitehead (1951 shared)
- John M. Hightower (1952)
- Austin Wehrwein (1953)
- Jim G. Lucas (1954)
- Harrison E. Salisbury (1955)
- William Randolph Hearst Jr. (1956 shared)
- J. Kingsbury-Smith (1956 shared)
- Frank Conniff (1956 shared)
- Russell Jones (1957)
- Staff of The New York Times (1958)
- Joseph Martin (1959 shared)
- Philip Santora (1959 shared)
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1960–1969 |
- A. M. Rosenthal (1960)
- Lynn Heinzerling (1961)
- Walter Lippmann (1962)
- Hal Hendrix (1963)
- Malcolm W. Browne (1964 shared)
- David Halberstam (1964 shared)
- J. A. Livingston (1965)
- Peter Arnett (1966)
- R. John Hughes (1967)
- Alfred Friendly (1968)
- William Tuohy (1969)
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1970–1979 |
- Seymour M. Hersh (1970)
- Jimmie Lee Hoagland (1971)
- Peter R. Kann (1972)
- Max Frankel (1973)
- Hedrick Smith (1974)
- William Mullen (1975 shared)
- Ovie Carter (1975 shared)
- Sydney H. Schanberg (1976)
- Henry Kamm (1978)
- Richard Ben Cramer (1979)
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1980–1989 |
- Joel Brinkley (1980 shared)
- Jay Mather (1980 shared)
- Shirley Christian (1981)
- John Darnton (1982)
- Thomas L. Friedman (1983 shared)
- Loren Jenkins (1983 shared)
- Karen Elliott House (1984 shared)
- Joshua Friedman (1985 shared)
- Dennis Bell (1985 shared)
- Ozier Muhammad (1985 shared)
- Lewis M. Simons (1986 shared)
- Pete Carey (1986 shared)
- Katherine Ellison (1986 shared)
- Michael Parks (1987)
- Thomas L. Friedman (1988)
- Bill Keller (1989 shared)
- Glenn Frankel (1989 shared)
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1990–1999 |
- Nicholas D. Kristof (1990 shared)
- Sheryl WuDunn (1990 shared)
- Caryle Murphy (1991 shared)
- Serge Schmemann (1991 shared)
- Patrick J. Sloyan (1992)
- John F. Burns (1993 shared)
- Roy Gutman (1993 shared)
- Staff of The Dallas Morning News (1994)
- Mark Fritz (1995)
- David Rohde (1996)
- John F. Burns (1997)
- Staff of The New York Times (1998)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (1999)
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2000–2009 |
- Mark Schoofs (2000)
- Ian Denis Johnson (2001 shared)
- Paul Salopek (2001 shared)
- Barry Bearak (2002)
- Kevin Sullivan (2003 shared)
- Mary Jordan (2003 shared)
- Anthony Shadid (2004)
- Kim Murphy (2005 shared)
- Dele Olojede (2005 shared)
- Joseph Kahn (2006 shared)
- Jim Yardley (2006 shared)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2007)
- Steve Fainaru (2008)
- Staff of The New York Times (2009)
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2010–2020 |
- Anthony Shadid (2010)
- Clifford J. Levy (2011 shared)
- Ellen Barry (2011 shared)
- Jeffrey Gettleman (2012)
- David Barboza (2013)
- Jason Szep (2014 shared)
- Andrew R. C. Marshall (2014 shared)
- Staff of The New York Times (2015)
- Alissa J. Rubin (2016)
- Staff of The New York Times (2017)
- Clare Baldwin (2018 shared)
- Andrew R.C. Marshall (2018 shared)
- Manuel Mogato (2018 shared)
- Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty, Staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo (2019)
- Staff of The New York Times (2020)
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting |
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As Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National (1942–1947) |
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1942–1947 | |
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As Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1948-present) |
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1948–1949 |
- Bert Andrews (1948 shared)
- Nat S. Finney (1948 shared)
- C. P. Trussell (1949)
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1950–1959 | |
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1960–1969 | |
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1970–1979 |
- William J. Eaton (1970)
- Lucinda Franks (1971)
- Jack Anderson (1972)
- Robert Boyd (1973 shared)
- Clark Hoyt (1973 shared)
- Jack White (1974 shared)
- James R. Polk (1974 shared)
- Donald L. Barlett (1975 shared)
- James B. Steele (1975 shared)
- James V. Risser (1976)
- Walter Mears (1977)
- Gaylord D. Shaw (1978)
- James V. Risser (1979)
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1980–1989 |
- Bette Swenson Orsini (1980 shared)
- Charles Stafford (1980 shared)
- John M. Crewdson (1981)
- Rick Atkinson (1982)
- The Boston Globe (1983)
- John Noble Wilford (1984)
- Thomas J. Knudson (1985)
- Craig Flournoy (1986 shared)
- George Rodrigues (1986 shared)
- Arthur Howe (1986 shared)
- Staff of The Miami Herald (1987 shared)
- Staff of The New York Times (1987 shared)
- Tim Weiner (1988)
- Donald L. Barlett (1989 shared)
- James B. Steele (1989 shared)
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1990–1999 |
- Ross Anderson (1990 shared)
- Bill Dietrich (1990 shared)
- Mary Ann Gwinn (1990 shared)
- Eric Nalder (1990 shared)
- Marjie Lundstrom (1991 shared)
- Rochelle Sharpe (1991 shared)
- Gannett News Service (1991 shared)
- Jeff Taylor (1992 shared)
- Mike McGraw (1992 shared)
- The Kansas City Star (1992 shared)
- David Maraniss (1993)
- Eileen Welsome (1994)
- Tony Horwitz (1995)
- Alix M. Freedman (1996)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (1997)
- Russell Carollo (1998 shared)
- Jeff Nesmith (1998 shared)
- Staff of The New York Times (1999)
- Jeff Gerth (1999)
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2000–2009 |
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2000)
- Staff of The New York Times (2001)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2002)
- Alan Miller (2003 shared)
- Kevin Sack (2003 shared)
- Staff of Los Angeles Times (2004 shared)
- Walt Bogdanich (2005)
- James Risen (2006 shared)
- Eric Lichtblau (2006 shared)
- Staff of The San Diego Union-Tribune (2006 shared)
- Staff of Copley News Service (2006 shared)
- Marcus Stern (2006 shared)
- Jerry Kammer (2006 shared)
- Charlie Savage (2007)
- Jo Becker (2008 shared)
- Barton Gellman (2008 shared)
- Staff of St. Petersburg Times (2009)
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2010–2020 |
- Matt Richtel (2010 shared)
- Staff of The New York Times (2010 shared)
- Jesse Eisinger (2011 shared)
- Jake Bernstein (2011 shared)
- David Wood (2012)
- Lisa Song (2013 shared)
- Elizabeth McGowan (2013 shared)
- David Hasemyer (2013 shared)
- David Philipps (2014)
- Carol D. Leonnig (2015)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2016)
- David Fahrenthold (2017)
- Staff of The New York Times (2018 shared)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2018 shared)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2019)
- Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times, T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faurtechi of ProPublica (2020 shared)
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