Jack William Fuller is a Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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–winning journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers. He began his journalism career as a copyboy for the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

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. Later he became a police reporter, a war correspondent in Vietnam, and a Washington correspondent. He worked for City News Bureau of Chicago, The Chicago Daily News, Pacific Stars and Stripes, and The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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, as well as the Tribune. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1986 for his editorials on constitutional issues in the Tribune.

During the administration of President Gerald Ford, Fuller served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney General Edward Levi.

From 1989 to 1997 he was editor and then publisher of the Chicago Tribune. From 1997 to 2005 he served as president of the Tribune Publishing Company

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A graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism

Medill School of Journalism

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 and Yale Law School

Yale Law School

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, he is the author of seven novels and two books on journalism.

Selected works

• Convergence (Doubleday; University of Chicago Press, 1982) ISBN 978-0-226-26881-1
• Fragments (William Morrow; University of Chicago Press, 1984) ISBN 978-0-226-26886-6
• Mass (William Morrow, 1985) ISBN 0-688-04685-1
• Our Fathers' Shadows (William Morrow, 1987) ISBN 0-340-39878-7
• Legends' End (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990) ISBN 0-340-50982-1
• News Values: Ideas for an Information Age (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 9780226268798
• Best of Jackson Payne: A Novel (Alfred Knopf; University of Chicago Press, 2000) ISBN 9780226268682
• Abbeville (Unbridled Books, 2008) ISBN 978-1932961478
• What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 9780226268989—Read an excerpt.

External links

• Jack Fuller Papers at the Newberry Library