Alix M. Freedman
Alix M. Freedman (born November 25, 1957 New York City) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, and ethics editor at Thomson Reuters.[1][2]
Life
Freedman was raised in New York City, where she attended the Chapin School [3] before graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy (1975).[4] She graduated from Harvard University with a BA and MA and also wrote for the Harvard Crimson.[5] She worked for The New York Times and for BusinessWeek magazine.[6] She worked for the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to 2011, becoming a senior special writer, deputy managing editor, and Page One editor, in 2011.
Awards
- 1993 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for the story "Fire Power"[7]
- 1996 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting[8]
- 1998 Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline and/or Beat Writing for "coverage of the tobacco industry" (shared witn Suein L. Hwang)[9]
- 1999 George Polk Award
- 2010 Gerald Loeb Minard Editor Award[10]
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gollark: As in, A-levels are after GCSEs.
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gollark: I read it before then, but still. English at school is very evil that way.
gollark: 1984 is actually part of the English GCSE course at my school (and/or exam board or whatever, not sure how that works). It's amazing how picking apart random bits of phrasing or whatever for hours on end ruin your enjoyment of a work.
References
- Kat Stoeffel (September 7, 2011). "Wall Street Journal Page One Editor Alix Freedman Named Reuters Ethics Editor". New York Observer.
- "A Heavy Blow to The Wall Street Journal", Columbia Journalism Review, Dean Starkman, September 7, 2011
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2013-01-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- https://www.thecrimson.com/writer/2947/Alix_M._Freedman/
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2011-10-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Media & Entertainment". Los Angeles Times. May 19, 1993. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- Heinz Dietrich Fischer; Erika J. Fischer (2002). Complete biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917-2000. Walter de Gruyter. p. 75. ISBN 978-3-598-30186-5.
- "Winners and Finalists in Loeb Competition Announced". The Write News. May 19, 1998. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
- "Career Achievement Awards". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
External links
- "Embracing the Complexities", American Journalism Review, June 1999
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/alix-freedman-leaves-wall_n_952103.html
- http://www.newsbios.com/newslum/freedman.htm
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