George Goodwin (journalist)

George Evans Goodwin (June 20, 1917 – January 21, 2015) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his work at The Atlanta Journal.[1][2]

Life, education, and career

Goodwin was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated in 1939 with an A.B. degree and a certificate in journalism from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.[1] During World War II he served for three years in the United States Navy, including twenty months on operations as an intelligence officer.[1] During his long career in journalism he has reported for The Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Georgian (both of which James M. Cox had acquired in December 1939), the Washington Times-Herald and The Miami Daily News (another Cox property). The Georgia chapter of the Public Relations Society of America's annual award for volunteer service in named in his honor.[3] An authority on public relations, Goodwin has advised civic leaders including former Atlanta mayors Maynard Jackson and Shirley Franklin, as well as Ambassador Andrew Young.[4] In his spare time he has also been a Rotarian Senior Counselor.[5] He died at the age of 97 on January 21, 2015.[6]

Pulitzer Prize

In 1947 Goodwin covered a fraudulent election in Telfair County, Georgia, for The Atlanta Journal. He won the next annual Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting citing that work.[2]

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References
  1. Heinz Dietrich Fischer and Erika J. Fischer, The Pulitzer Prize Archive: Volume 16: Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917–2000, Walter de Gruyter, Munich, 2002, ISBN 3598301863, p. 87. Page 87 at Google Books.
  2. "Local Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  3. Manning Selvage & Lee Public Relations. "Video Tribute to Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist George E. Goodwin". Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  4. Tonya Layman. "Goodwin embraced Atlanta's growth". Atlanta Business Chronicle, 18 March 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  5. (Letter to the editor), George E. Goodwin, The Rotarian, May 1988, p. 11.
  6. "Interview". www.bizjournals.com. 2015. Retrieved 2020-01-19.


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